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The Theft of Iðunn's Apples · Norse Mythology Sleep Story

3 hours · The Sleeping Almanac · June 10, 2026

The Theft of Iðunn's Apples · Norse Mythology Sleep Story
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Tonight, the gods discover they can grow old. Iðunn keeps the apples that hold age away, and when Loki, cornered by a giant in eagle feathers, gives her up, the halls of the gods begin to gray and stiffen and slow. To undo it, Loki must fly north as a falcon and carry her home before the oldest of them forgets how to stand. A gentle story about time, and the quiet panic of losing it, told slowly enough to lose track of time yourself.

Sources: the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson (Skáldskaparmál) and the skaldic poem Haustlǫng, retold in an original written narrative.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Welcome
  2. 2:03Chapter 1. The Hunger of Three Wanderers
  3. 10:08Chapter 2. The Ox That Would Not Cook
  4. 17:06Chapter 3. The Pole That Stuck
  5. 23:26Chapter 4. The Oath Sworn in the Sky
  6. 31:16Chapter 5. The Goddess of Apples
  7. 42:28Chapter 6. The Story Loki Told
  8. 51:00Chapter 7. The Wings of Þjazi
  9. 1:00:22Chapter 8. The First Gray Hair
  10. 1:15:08Chapter 9. The Falcon Cloak
  11. 1:23:08Chapter 10. The Nut and the Fire
  12. 1:32:30Chapter 11. The Daughter Who Came for Vengeance
  13. 1:45:28Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.
  14. 1:56:08Music to sleep by

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