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The Binding of Loki · Norse Mythology Sleep Story

3 hours · The Sleeping Almanac · June 17, 2026

The Binding of Loki · Norse Mythology Sleep Story
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Tonight, the feast in Ægir's hall by the sea, where the gods gathered to drink and one uninvited guest spoke every cruel and true thing he had ever held back. Of Bragi and Iðunn. Of Óðinn lowering his cup. Of Frigg, who heard at the table the name of the one responsible for her son's death. Then the flight to the high mountain. The hall with four doors. The salmon in the dark pool below the waterfall of Fránangr. The first fishing net the world had ever seen. And the cave with three stones, where a wife knelt with a wooden bowl raised above her husband's face for the rest of time, because what else was there for her to do.

This is the Lokasenna and what came after. The hinge of the season. Everything in Norse mythology that follows, the slow tilt toward Ragnarǫk, begins on the night Sigyn first raised the bowl.

Episode 7 of a complete twelve part season.

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

Chapters

  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 3:44Chapter 1. The Hall by the Sea
  3. 8:53Chapter 2. The Seat He Claimed
  4. 16:29Chapter 3. Bragi and Iðunn
  5. 21:22Chapter 4. The Old Wounds
  6. 33:43Chapter 5. The Vanir's Shame
  7. 38:43Chapter 6. Týr's Hand and Freyr's Sword
  8. 45:58Chapter 7. Heimdallr and Skaði
  9. 53:59Chapter 8. Sif and the Coming of Þórr
  10. 1:02:39Chapter 9. The Mountain Hall
  11. 1:12:24Chapter 10. The Net of Ash
  12. 1:23:17Chapter 11. The Three Stones
  13. 1:39:58Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.
  14. 1:48:17Music to sleep by

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