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.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome

2:03 Chapter 1. The Hunger of Three Wanderers

10:08 Chapter 2. The Ox That Would Not Cook

17:06 Chapter 3. The Pole That Stuck

23:26 Chapter 4. The Oath Sworn in the Sky

31:16 Chapter 5. The Goddess of Apples

42:28 Chapter 6. The Story Loki Told

51:00 Chapter 7. The Wings of Þjazi

1:00:22 Chapter 8. The First Gray Hair

1:15:08 Chapter 9. The Falcon Cloak

1:23:08 Chapter 10. The Nut and the Fire

1:32:30 Chapter 11. The Daughter Who Came for Vengeance

1:45:28 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.

1:56:08 Music to sleep by

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New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

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

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome

2:04 Chapter 1. The Three Children of Loki

12:47 Chapter 2. The Wolf Brought to Asgard

21:57 Chapter 3. Týr, the One Who Fed Him

31:51 Chapter 4. The First Two Chains

40:10 Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim Again

47:20 Chapter 6. The Six Impossible Things

57:34 Chapter 7. The Ribbon in the Hand

1:04:37 Chapter 8. The Test the Wolf Proposed

1:10:37 Chapter 9. The Binding

1:16:38 Chapter 10. The God Who Could Not Hold a Sword

1:28:14 Chapter 11. What Was Lost. What Was Held.

1:35:42 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.

1:47:30 Music to sleep by

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7P8vw9jK5Y4

New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

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

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

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.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome

1:55 Chapter 1. Thor, the God of the Hammer

11:34 Chapter 2. Sif and the Golden Hair

20:58 Chapter 3. Loki, the Trickster

31:38 Chapter 4. The Cutting

41:13 Chapter 5. Down to Svartalfheim

50:15 Chapter 6. The Sons of Ivaldi

59:44 Chapter 7. The Wager (Loki Bets His Head)

1:09:15 Chapter 8. The Fly at the Bellows

1:21:05 Chapter 9. Gullinbursti and Draupnir

1:29:53 Chapter 10. The Making of Mjǫllnir

1:41:14 Chapter 11. The Judgment of the Gods

1:48:16 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Hammer at Rest

2:01:36 Music to sleep by

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/J1fn8PAVAjY

New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

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

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the Allfather goes looking for what he does not yet know. He comes to the well at the root of the world, where Mímir keeps the water of wisdom, and he pays for a single drink with an eye. Later he hangs nine nights on the windswept tree, wounded and alone, until the runes rise to him out of the dark. A quiet story about how much a god will give to understand the world. Let it carry you down slowly.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome

1:46 Chapter 1. The God Who Could Not Be Still

8:44 Chapter 2. The Many Names of the Allfather

16:52 Chapter 3. Thought and Memory, the Two Ravens

24:41 Chapter 4. The Wolves at His Throne

31:43 Chapter 5. The Spear and the Ring

39:02 Chapter 6. The Well Beneath the World

52:28 Chapter 7. The Eye in the Water

1:01:40 Chapter 8. Sleipnir, the Eight legged Horse

1:09:24 Chapter 9. The Hanging on the Tree

1:26:38 Chapter 10. What the Runes Whispered

1:41:15 Chapter 11. The Wisdom He Brought Back

1:48:49 Chapter 12. A Quiet Reflection on the Allfather

1:53:15 Chapter 13. Goodnight, and the Allfather Continues

1:56:48 Music to sleep by

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New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

Sources: the Hávamál and the Eddas, retold in an original written narrative.

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

Tonight, the shape of everything. Before the gods have names you know, there is a tree, and from its branches and roots hang nine worlds. We move slowly through each one, from the fire of Muspelheim to the mist of Niflheim, the halls of the gods, the home of giants, and the dark below, until the whole map of Norse reality is laid out quietly around you. This is the orientation episode of the season. Everything that follows happens somewhere on this tree.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome

1:49 Chapter 1. The North Before the Gods

9:50 Chapter 2. Ginnungagap, the Yawning Void

18:18 Chapter 3. The First Fire and the First Frost

26:40 Chapter 4. Ymir, the First Being

36:56 Chapter 5. The Sons of Borr and the Slaying of Ymir

45:59 Chapter 6. The Making of the World

57:24 Chapter 7. Yggdrasill, the World Tree

1:08:02 Chapter 8. The Nine Worlds Named

1:19:00 Chapter 9. The Wells Beneath the Roots

1:28:19 Chapter 10. The Bridge of Burning Light

1:36:58 Chapter 11. A Quiet Reflection on the Edda

1:45:11 Chapter 12. Goodnight, and the Beginning

1:49:50 Music to sleep by

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HpgRqADGzTo

New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

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

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.

A slow, calm place for the world's oldest stories, told for the listener who cannot quite turn off. Season 1 is Norse mythology, narrated across a single season long arc, from the nine worlds to Ragnarǫk.

How to use the show: press play, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow and the music never spikes. You are not meant to stay awake.

New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

Follow everywhere, and watch the illustrated versions on YouTube: https://beacons.ai/thesleepingalmanac

This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.