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

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac

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.