The Greatest Adventures of Thor Across the Nine Worlds | Norse Mythology for Sleep

The Greatest Adventures of Thor Across the Nine Worlds | Norse Mythology for SleepA slow, quiet journey through the adventures of Thor, told across the nine worlds and made for falling asleep to.Hours of old Norse stories, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.Thor was never the wisest of the gods, and that's most of the appeal. He travels. He crosses into places he probably shouldn't. He goes up against giants, and against things much older and stranger than giants, and he doesn't always come out ahead. There are long roads, uneasy welcomes in halls that aren't quite what they seem, contests that turn out to have been rigged from the start, and a hammer that goes missing more than once. Somewhere behind all of it is the sense that even the strongest of them knew how this was all going to end.But the point of this recording isn't really the stories. It's the hour or two you spend not quite listening to them. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. The stories are just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere on the road out of Asgard and wake up in a hall full of giants, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends and old folklore, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.