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The Forging of Mjǫllnir · Norse Mythology Sleep Story

3 hours · The Sleeping Almanac · June 3, 2026

The Forging of Mjǫllnir · Norse Mythology Sleep Story
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Tonight, a wager in the dark under the mountains. Loki, having cut the golden hair from Thor's wife while she slept, must replace it, and to do so he sets the finest dwarven smiths against one another. Out of their forge come a ship that folds into a pocket, a spear that never misses, a ring that makes more of itself, and a short handled hammer that will become the most famous object in all the nine worlds. A slow, warm story of craft and mischief. Drift off beside the forge.

Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, retold in an original written narrative.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 1:55Chapter 1. Thor, the God of the Hammer
  3. 11:34Chapter 2. Sif and the Golden Hair
  4. 20:58Chapter 3. Loki, the Trickster
  5. 31:38Chapter 4. The Cutting
  6. 41:13Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim
  7. 50:15Chapter 6. The Sons of Ivaldi
  8. 59:44Chapter 7. The Wager (Loki Bets His Head)
  9. 1:09:15Chapter 8. The Fly at the Bellows
  10. 1:21:05Chapter 9. Gullinbursti and Draupnir
  11. 1:29:53Chapter 10. The Making of Mjǫllnir
  12. 1:41:14Chapter 11. The Judgment of the Gods
  13. 1:48:16Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Hammer at Rest
  14. 2:01:36Music to sleep by

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