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Odin's Search for Wisdom · Norse Mythology Sleep Story

3 hours · The Sleeping Almanac · May 31, 2026

Odin's Search for Wisdom · Norse Mythology Sleep Story
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Tonight, the Allfather goes looking for what he does not yet know. He comes to the well at the root of the world, where Mímir keeps the water of wisdom, and he pays for a single drink with an eye. Later he hangs nine nights on the windswept tree, wounded and alone, until the runes rise to him out of the dark. A quiet story about how much a god will give to understand the world. Let it carry you down slowly.

Sources: the Hávamál and the Eddas, retold in an original written narrative.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 1:46Chapter 1. The God Who Could Not Be Still
  3. 8:44Chapter 2. The Many Names of the Allfather
  4. 16:52Chapter 3. Thought and Memory, the Two Ravens
  5. 24:41Chapter 4. The Wolves at His Throne
  6. 31:43Chapter 5. The Spear and the Ring
  7. 39:02Chapter 6. The Well Beneath the World
  8. 52:28Chapter 7. The Eye in the Water
  9. 1:01:40Chapter 8. Sleipnir, the Eight legged Horse
  10. 1:09:24Chapter 9. The Hanging on the Tree
  11. 1:26:38Chapter 10. What the Runes Whispered
  12. 1:41:15Chapter 11. The Wisdom He Brought Back
  13. 1:48:49Chapter 12. A Quiet Reflection on the Allfather
  14. 1:53:15Chapter 13. Goodnight, and the Allfather Continues
  15. 1:56:48Music to sleep by

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