Discover Odin at the British Museum

Here is the official British Museum announcement for Julian’s upcoming DISCOVER ODIN event. Tickets should be available late August; we will, of course, let you know when and how to get them as soon as we can. There will be a CD programme available to accompany the event.

Thursday 4 October & Friday 5 October 2001
DISCOVER ODIN
BP Lecture Theatre, 6.30pm
Thursday: £9, BM Friends £8, concessions £7
Friday: £12, BM Friends £10, concessions £8
Joint tickets: £19, BM Friends £16, concessions £13

Over two evenings, Julian Cope, author of The Modern Antiquarian, takes us on a tour of Ancient Britain and Europe. Spoken word and music will be used to show that Odin, renowned as the warlike Allfather of the Vikings, existed at the heart of European culture from prehistoric times, with vestiges of his influence surviving to the 19th century. Through Scandinavian myths and European languages, via churches, temples and law centres, of the British Isles and Mainland Europe, Julian Cope reclaims for Odin his original reputation as poet, priest and nurturer of early European culture.