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Odin and the Mead of Poetry · Norse Mythology Sleep Story
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Tonight: how poetry came into the worlds.
Of Kvasir, the wisest being ever made, brewed from the breath of every god in Asgard. Of his murder by two clever dwarves who poured his blood into three vessels and hid them. Of Suttungr the giant, who took the vessels into a hollow mountain and set his daughter Gunnlǫð to guard them. And of Odin, who walked east in disguise as Bǫlverkr the worker, drilled into the mountain in the shape of a snake, drank the mead in three long draughts, and flew home as an eagle to give poetry to the gods and to men.
A 3 hour sleep story for adults, drawn from Snorri's Prose Edda and the Hávamál. Old north narration, calm pacing, ambient music. Made to drift into, not to follow.
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This story is narrated with a voice clone of the host, scored with AI generated ambient music, and illustrated with AI generated still images. The script is written by hand from the source texts.
Chapters
- 00:00Welcome
- 01:44Chapter I: The Spit in the Jar
- 10:41Chapter II: The Wisest Being in the Worlds
- 15:22Chapter III: The Dwarves at the Door
- 23:53Chapter IV: The Drowning of Gilling
- 29:11Chapter V: The Brother's Revenge
- 37:45Chapter VI: The Mead in the Mountain
- 45:29Chapter VII: Bǫlverkr at the Farm
- 55:44Chapter VIII: The Summer of Nine Men's Work
- 1:05:47Chapter IX: The Drill in the Stone
- 1:11:23Chapter X: The Snake in the Mountain
- 1:16:16Chapter XI: The Three Nights
- 1:31:01Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.
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