In preperation for the new tv-show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, we present you a very scientific examination of himbos in ASOIAF. Spoiler alert: our boy Dunk (thicc as a castle wall) ranks highly.

Join us as we discuss what exactly constitutes a himbo, and talk about characters ranging from Qarl the Maid to Grenn and Gendry. As well as some who are absolutely not himbos, even if they fit some criteria...

If you want to follow along with the ranking, here's the himbo ranking in full:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FsXoYDkqeZ9U8Js95UC9-2kmUs61bbdW/view?usp=drive_link

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In this episode we take you on a journey to meet very real people (à la Brandon Starks if he were a king or a hunter) who are saints and actual people who are saints (with or without boobies and visions) with a bonus festive saint and singing (no fire was started in the making of this episode).

We manage to parallel Septon Meribald and Gregor Clegan (and bonus Oedipus!) to the same saint, and also talk Pretty Meris, Melisandre, Mother Mole, Baelor the Blessed, Jeyne Poole and more. We even throw in how Valyria could have avoided the Doom. And cakes that are boob-shaped.

Join us on this trip and make this shortest day of the year if you're in the Northern Hemisphere longer (and bring extra light to it if you're in the Southern Hemisphere, and some cold because these candles are in Sweden)

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Content, sources and ressources:

Virginie talks about

- Saint Agatha of Sicily

https://www.vaticannews.va/fr/saint-du-jour/02/05/saint-agathe--vierge-et-martyre-de-catane.html

https://www.vaticanstate.va/fr/etat-et-gouvernement/notes-generales/saint-du-jour/1458-5-fevrier-sainte-agathe-martyre.html

Prière Eucharistique 1 https://www.bibliotheque-monastique.ch/bibliotheque/bibliotheque/prièreseuch/PREXEUCH.htm

Deborah PUCCIO, « Sainte Agathe, les femmes et le chocolat », Clio [En ligne], 14 | 2001, mis en ligne le 03 juillet 2006, consulté le 12 décembre 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/clio/108 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/clio.108

- Saint Julien le Pauvre (Saint Julian the Poor)

well, it's a Parisian mashup of a number of Saint Julians so maybe read on Julian the Hospitaller. And check out the church when you're in Paris!

https://www.sjlp-paris.org/

Lo talks about:

-Saint Erik

https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/uppsaladomkyrka/erik-den-helige-och-andra-helgon

https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/erik-den-helige

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Mobil/Artikel/15396

-Saint Birgitta

https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/heliga-birgitta-medeltida-maktspelerska

https://historiska.se/utforska-historien/kunskapsbank/heliga-birgitta-sveriges-mest-kanda-kvinna/

and bonus Saint Lucie and songs!

In this episode we talk about gender nonconforming people throughout history, and ASOIAF. We cover everyone from Joan of Arc, genderqueer Viking era people, possible trans saints, and a Polish gender criminal (of sorts). And we compare them to characters like Brienne of Tarth, Morna White Mask, Alleras the Sphinx, Arya Stark, Brave Danny Flint, and more. Join us as we discuss how the gender binary is fake and heteronormativity is bullshit!

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Thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

Content, sources and ressources:

Lo talks about Late Iron Age/Viking age archeology, Saint Marinos, and Wojciech of Poznán:

“Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography” edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall & Blake Gutt (including chapters by M.W. Bychowski and Lee Colwill)

“Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?” - M.W. Bychowski

“Wojciech of Poznán and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550-1561” by Anna Kłosowska (in “Trans historical: Gender plurality before the modern”, edited by Greta LeFleur, Masha Raskolnikov & Anna Kłosowska)

“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings, ca. 750‐1050” - Jacob Bell

Virginie talks about Joan of Arc and Saint Eugene/Eugenia:

“Les genres fluides - De Jeanne d'Arc aux saintes trans” by Clovis Maillet “Passionnément Moyen Âge - Plaidoyer pour le petit peuple” by Claude Gauvard