Tonight, on the very last night of the old world, you walk with the gods toward their own ending. The wolf slips his chain. The serpent rises from the sea. The horn sounds. The fire comes. And then, very softly, a green earth at dawn, and a few gold chess pieces lying in the new grass.

This is the season finale of The Sleeping Almanac — twelve nights inside Norse myth, ending exactly where the seers said it would end. And then, gently, beginning again.

Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome
01:35 Chapter I: The Fimbulvetr
08:22 Chapter II: Brother Will Kill Brother
14:09 Chapter III: The Wolf Slips the Chain
20:42 Chapter IV: The Serpent Stirs
27:12 Chapter V: The Ship of Nails
34:07 Chapter VI: The Horn
40:58 Chapter VII: The Gods Arm
49:04 Chapter VIII: Odin and the Wolf
55:42 Chapter IX: Thor and the Serpent
1:03:58 Chapter X: The World Burns and Drowns
1:10:41 Chapter XI: The Green Earth
1:19:15 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time

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Sources tonight from Vǫluspá and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight.

Tonight, a giantess walks down out of the cold mountains to demand the gods make right what they have broken. She comes alone. She comes armed. And she will not leave until she has chosen a husband by his feet.

This is the story of Skadi, the goddess of winter, of skis, of bows, of the high cold country. The story of her father killed by the gods. The story of her quiet impossible bargain. The story of a marriage that did not work, and a goddess who walked herself home.

Settle in. Lower the lights. Goodnight.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome
01:56 Chapter I: The Hall of Þjazi
07:49 Chapter II: The Winter March
11:22 Chapter III: The Goddess at the Gate
14:39 Chapter IV: The Three Demands
19:27 Chapter V: The Row of Feet
23:27 Chapter VI: Loki and the Sky
29:18 Chapter VII: The Nine Nights at Þrymheimr
39:26 Chapter VIII: The Nine Nights at Nóatún
49:14 Chapter IX: The Slow Parting
57:59 Chapter X: The Long Walk Back
1:05:03 Chapter XI: The Goddess in the Mountains
1:12:58 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time

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Sources tonight from Skáldskaparmál, Gylfaginning, and Lokasenna.

Goodnight, dear listener. Goodnight.

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.

· Chapters ·

00:00 Welcome
01:44 Chapter I: The Spit in the Jar
10:41 Chapter II: The Wisest Being in the Worlds
15:22 Chapter III: The Dwarves at the Door
23:53 Chapter IV: The Drowning of Gilling
29:11 Chapter V: The Brother's Revenge
37:45 Chapter VI: The Mead in the Mountain
45:29 Chapter VII: Bǫlverkr at the Farm
55:44 Chapter VIII: The Summer of Nine Men's Work
1:05:47 Chapter IX: The Drill in the Stone
1:11:23 Chapter X: The Snake in the Mountain
1:16:16 Chapter XI: The Three Nights
1:31:01 Chapter XII: Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.

· About The Sleeping Almanac ·

3 hour sleep stories drawn from the world's old mythologies. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

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· Disclosure ·

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.