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