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Something You Should Know - October 20 Dr Alice KwokVikings In The Midwest (tonight) · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: visit right now with Alice Fox. She is going to
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  Speaker 1: be in Sioux Falls this evening for a really cool presentation.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Vikings, but what is the
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  Speaker 1: official name of this presentation? Once again, Alice.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me on John. Um, So
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  Speaker 2: tonight we are going to be having a lecture called
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  Speaker 2: How the Vikings Conquered the Midwest here at Augustana University,
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  Speaker 2: hosted by the Center for Western Studies.
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  Speaker 1: And you are the one doing the presentation tonight. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about your background and how you got involved in this.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, so I am from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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  Speaker 2: just about six hours to the east. And my interest
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  Speaker 2: is in how the Vikings have been remembered after the
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  Speaker 2: Middle Ages up until the present, and especially here in
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  Speaker 2: the Midwest, where we have so much exciting culture based
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  Speaker 2: around the Vikings and their literature and their material culture.
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  Speaker 1: In the Midwest, there's a lot of Vikings. There's like
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  Speaker 1: a football team in Minnesota. There's a bunch of sports
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  Speaker 1: teams and schools all around. And if you go to
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  Speaker 1: the event tonight, you're going to find out why we
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  Speaker 1: have such a fascination with Vikings and kind of get
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  Speaker 1: a little background on why Vikings are so prevalent in
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  Speaker 1: the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: Precisely. We're going to talk about sculptures. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about mascots, including, you know, our very own here
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  Speaker 2: in Sioux Falls. And people dressing up as Vikings, people
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  Speaker 2: preserving Viking arts, and any kind of way that people
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  Speaker 2: might still be engaged in this Scandinavian history, whether they
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  Speaker 2: themselves are of Scandinavian extraction or not.
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  Speaker 1: So if somebody would like to join you this evening,
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  Speaker 1: is there a cost to get in?
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  Speaker 2: No, it is a free event. We welcome all comers.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of the Viking Days reunion on campus.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. So how long have you been interested
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  Speaker 1: in this and what got you interested in it?
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  Speaker 2: So I got into the Vikings back in graduate school.
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  Speaker 2: I started out actually interested in the French Revolution, but
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  Speaker 2: I was TAing for a class on Viking history and
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely fell in love with the Icelandic sagas and
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  Speaker 2: ended up sort of moving into that space. And I've
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  Speaker 2: been giving talks about the Vikings for the last four years.
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  Speaker 1: As you're out doing presentations about the Vikings, I bet
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  Speaker 1: you encounter some really cool questions, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: I love hearing from all sorts of people from all
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  Speaker 2: walks of life about where the Vikings have intersected with
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  Speaker 2: their lives, whether it's, you know, they're learning null binding,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if they've come through fiber arts and are
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  Speaker 2: now getting into sort of more Viking age forms of
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  Speaker 2: knitting and other fiber craft, or people who went to
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  Speaker 2: a school with the Vikings or people who have watched
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  Speaker 2: the TV shows and just really loved them.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight is the night. It's in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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  Speaker 1: The event is free, and we're going to find out
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  Speaker 1: right now what time should I be there to take
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  Speaker 1: in the big event.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to be talking at 6 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice. And I've seen this shared on Facebook quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit, so I'll be sure to share it on
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  Speaker 1: the Sunny Radio page. Thank you so much for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to chat.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to meet people tonight and hear what
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  Speaker 2: you have to say about the Vikings and get to
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  Speaker 2: know everyone a little better. Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Alice Kwok has been our guest. She's from the University
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  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin-Madison, but she will be in Sioux Falls tonight,
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  Speaker 1: and she'll be at the Center for Western Studies on
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  Speaker 1: Summit in Sioux Falls. Again, if you would like to go,
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  Speaker 1: it is a free event. All of the details at Facebook.com
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  Speaker 1: slash Sunny Radio and Facebook.com slash Sioux Falls News.