Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is a failed lawyer, a flawed person and a magazine publisher who grew up in every other tiny Icelandic fishing village and spent the summers of his youth at his grandfathers sheep farm. 

After decades of evading his true calling, Jón just recently earned a history degree at the University of Gothenburg, where he mostly focused on medieval Norse and Icelandic law, thus landing him the gig of being this show's sidekick host. 

While not reading history books or working as the publisher of The Reykjavík Grapevine, Jón struggles to divide his time between trail running and family life and in the style of a true middle aged Icelander, the jury is still out on wether or not he manages to to any of these things reasonably well.

Valur Gunnarsson is a historian and writer who grew up on the Viking trail in Iceland, Norway and Yorkshire, England. He is best known for his Bjarmalönd trilogy, which is a historical travelogue through the former USSR, war-torn Ukraine and a dramatic family history in Germany. 

Among previous works is the best-selling Örninn og fálkinn, a dystopia about an imagined German occupation of Iceland in 1940, two other novels, a non-fic book of counterfactual history and an album of Leonard Cohen songs in Icelandic.
He worked at the Eastern Vikings department at the University of Iceland and studied in Reykjavik, Helsinki, Berlin, Belfast and the University of East Anglia, He was also the first editor of Reykjavik Grapevine Magazine and has written for the Guardian, Associated Press and Berliner Zeitung. His first book in English is What if Vikings Conquered the World and Other Questions of Icelandic and Nordic History, available on Salka Publishing.