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.
🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.
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.
🌙 Join the almanac, first looks and the occasional quiet letter: https://gildenmyth.com
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.