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.

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

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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.

Tonight, the strongest of the gods wakes to an empty bed and an empty hand. Mjǫllnir, the hammer that holds the sky together, has been stolen in the night. Loki borrows Freyja's falcon cloak and flies east to Jǫtunheimr, where the giant king Þrymr is waiting on his high mound with a price for its return. The price is Freyja herself. Freyja refuses, the gods sit in council, and the only road forward is the one no one wants to take. Þórr is dressed in fine wheat linen and a bridal veil, Loki agrees to come as the handmaid, and the two of them ride east to a wedding feast in the cold hall of the giants. A bride who eats an entire ox. A quick tongue that has an answer for every strange thing. A veil that lifts just long enough for two burning eyes to be seen. And then the hammer brought out at last to bless the marriage, laid in the bride's lap, and the hand that closes around the haft. Let it carry you down into sleep.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
1:25 Chapter 1. The Empty Pillow
10:10 Chapter 2. The Borrowed Wings
17:15 Chapter 3. The Hall of Þrymr
25:40 Chapter 4. The Demand
31:41 Chapter 5. The Refusal
38:25 Chapter 6. The Counsel of the Gods
52:41 Chapter 7. The Bridal Veil
1:02:11 Chapter 8. The Road East
1:09:31 Chapter 9. The Wedding Feast
1:17:04 Chapter 10. The Eye Beneath the Veil
1:27:20 Chapter 11. The Hammer on the Knee
1:40:14 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.
1:50:22 Music to sleep by

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Sources: the Þrymskviða from the Poetic Edda (Codex Regius, 13th century Iceland), with chapter framing and Hávamál anchors drawn from the same manuscript tradition. Retold as an original written narrative.

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

Tonight, the strongest of the gods goes fishing for the end of the world. Þórr travels east to a giant's hall for a cauldron large enough to brew the sea, and before dawn he rows a small boat out past every fishing bank a man has ever known, into the deep water where the Serpent waits. He baits a line with the head of an ox and lets it down, and far below, the thing that circles the world takes the hook. A slow, strange story of a god and a monster meeting eye to eye, and the small old hand that cut the line and gave the world a little more time. Let it carry you down into sleep.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
3:09 Chapter 1. The Cauldron That Was Not There
8:18 Chapter 2. The Journey East
12:26 Chapter 3. The Grandmother and the Mother
16:28 Chapter 4. The Return of Hymir
20:41 Chapter 5. The Three Oxen
27:48 Chapter 6. The Bait
34:41 Chapter 7. The Rowing Out
40:54 Chapter 8. The Whales
45:04 Chapter 9. The Pull
52:57 Chapter 10. The Eye
1:05:02 Chapter 11. The Cut
1:17:26 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.
1:27:54 Music to sleep by

Watch the illustrated version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

Sources: the Poetic Edda (Hymiskviða) and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (Gylfaginning), with the fishing scene preserved on the Altuna and Gosforth picture stones, retold in an original written narrative.

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Tonight, the feast in Ægir's hall by the sea, where the gods gathered to drink and one uninvited guest spoke every cruel and true thing he had ever held back. Of Bragi and Iðunn. Of Óðinn lowering his cup. Of Frigg, who heard at the table the name of the one responsible for her son's death. Then the flight to the high mountain. The hall with four doors. The salmon in the dark pool below the waterfall of Fránangr. The first fishing net the world had ever seen. And the cave with three stones, where a wife knelt with a wooden bowl raised above her husband's face for the rest of time, because what else was there for her to do.

This is the Lokasenna and what came after. The hinge of the season. Everything in Norse mythology that follows, the slow tilt toward Ragnarǫk, begins on the night Sigyn first raised the bowl.

Episode 7 of a complete twelve part season.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
3:44 Chapter 1. The Hall by the Sea
8:53 Chapter 2. The Seat He Claimed
16:29 Chapter 3. Bragi and Iðunn
21:22 Chapter 4. The Old Wounds
33:43 Chapter 5. The Vanir's Shame
38:43 Chapter 6. Týr's Hand and Freyr's Sword
45:58 Chapter 7. Heimdallr and Skaði
53:59 Chapter 8. Sif and the Coming of Þórr
1:02:39 Chapter 9. The Mountain Hall
1:12:24 Chapter 10. The Net of Ash
1:23:17 Chapter 11. The Three Stones
1:39:58 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.
1:48:17 Music to sleep by

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

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Tonight, the brightest of the gods begins to dream of his own ending. Baldr, the most loved and the most gentle, wakes from dreams of death, and his mother Frigg walks the whole world asking every living thing to swear it will never harm him. Everything swears, except one small plant she passes by. A slow, sorrowful story of love, an overlooked thing, and a grief that even the gods cannot undo. Let it settle over you softly.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome

8:04 Chapter 1. The Dream That Baldr Had

15:29 Chapter 2. The Long Ride to Hel

18:50 Chapter 3. The Seeress Who Did Not Want To Speak

25:35 Chapter 4. Frigg's Long Walking

35:35 Chapter 5. The Sport of the Gods

40:53 Chapter 6. The Old Woman at Frigg's Door

45:57 Chapter 7. The Plant West of Valhǫll

51:33 Chapter 8. The Brother Who Could Not See

56:37 Chapter 9. The Throw

1:02:03 Chapter 10. The Greatest Ship in the World

1:13:13 Chapter 11. Hermóðr's Nine Nights

1:32:38 Chapter 12. Goodnight. And the Wolf at the Edge of Time.

1:46:27 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 (Gylfaginning) and the Poetic Edda (Vǫluspá and Baldrs draumar), 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 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.