Odin · The Mead of Poetry

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 Welcome01:44 Chapter I: The Spit in the Jar10:41 Chapter II: The Wisest Being in the Worlds15:22 Chapter III: The Dwarves at the Door23:53 Chapter IV: The Drowning of Gilling29:11 Chapter V: The Brother's Revenge37:45 Chapter VI: The Mead in the Mountain45:29 Chapter VII: Bǫlverkr at the Farm55:44 Chapter VIII: The Summer of Nine Men's Work1:05:47 Chapter IX: The Drill in the Stone1:11:23 Chapter X: The Snake in the Mountain1:16:16 Chapter XI: The Three Nights1:31:01 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.Everything in one place: thesleepingalmanac.com· 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.