Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Um, my name is Keith Giles.

I'm one of your co-hosts, uh, the author of the seven-part Jesus Un- book series dealing with deconstruction and reconstruction of the Christian faith, uh, the Sola series, the Quantum Sayings, um, series that I'm working on right now and just finishing up, um, that fourth book in the series, hopefully available in a couple of months.

And, um, and some books that Matthew and I, my co-host here, have c- uh, co-written together.

We co-wrote a book called Reading Romans Right, and, um, we did a little series that we're working on.

Um, it was in, uh, 2023.

And that was actually sort of my cue for writing the book series because I got so annoyed that they, now they were designated as, as, as some of the world's primary, uh, heritage and, and there was nothing really to read about them unless you dive into the really, really, uh, technical, uh, literature.

But the, the ring fortresses in Denmark are a group of, we know five very big, uh, fortress structures.

Each of them is completely circular.

There's not, like, a written source that said, "Oh, and then these things were built." They're like the most massive structures ever found in a Scandinavian country from the Viking age, and yet they're so, the sources are completely silent.

So that adds to what is just, I think, the biggest archeological mystery of Viking age archeology.

And this has been going on for almost 100 years, and that's really what the book series is about because I think if you just wrote a monograph on these, oh, everything you ever wanted know- to know about Viking fortresses, except you didn't.

Uh, [laughs] if, if you, if you wrote that, it would be, well, a, a long and probably very boring book.