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The Binding of Fenrir · Norse Mythology Sleep Story

3 hours · The Sleeping Almanac · June 7, 2026

The Binding of Fenrir · Norse Mythology Sleep Story
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Tonight, the gods try to hold back the future. A wolf is growing among them, larger and stronger each day, and the gods know how the story is meant to end. They bring him chains, and call it a game, and he breaks them. Then they bring a ribbon made of impossible things, and a single god is brave enough, or honest enough, to pay the price of the lie. A calm, sad story about fate beginning to set. Let it settle over you slowly.

Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Gylfaginning) and the Poetic Edda, retold in an original written narrative.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 2:04Chapter 1. The Three Children of Loki
  3. 12:47Chapter 2. The Wolf Brought to Asgard
  4. 21:57Chapter 3. Týr, the One Who Fed Him
  5. 31:51Chapter 4. The First Two Chains
  6. 40:10Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim Again
  7. 47:20Chapter 6. The Six Impossible Things
  8. 57:34Chapter 7. The Ribbon in the Hand
  9. 1:04:37Chapter 8. The Test the Wolf Proposed
  10. 1:10:37Chapter 9. The Binding
  11. 1:16:38Chapter 10. The God Who Could Not Hold a Sword
  12. 1:28:14Chapter 11. What Was Lost. What Was Held.
  13. 1:35:42Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.
  14. 1:47:30Music to sleep by

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