Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Stories - Old Viking Legends

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Starting point is 00:03:45 the spear of Gungneur and the boat of Skidbladnear The Asir and the veneer marvelled at these things so wonderful Loki gave the spear as a gift to Odin and to Frey who was the chief of the veneer He gave the boat

Starting point is 00:04:11 Skid Blanir God rejoiced That things so wonderful And so helpful Had been brought to them Loki Who had made a great show In giving these gifts

Starting point is 00:04:28 Said boastingly None but the dwarfs Who worked for me Could make such things There are other dwarfs but they are as unhandy as they are misshapen. The dwarfs who are my servants are the only ones who can make such wonders.

Starting point is 00:04:56 Now Loki in his boastfulness had said such a foolish thing. There were other dwarfs besides those who had worked for him and one of these was there in Asgard. All unknown to Loki he stood in the shadow of Odin's sea. listening to what was being said. Now he went over to Loki, his little unshapen form, trembling with rage, the most spiteful of all Loki you boaster, he roared. You lie in your words.

Starting point is 00:05:42 Sindhry, my brother, who would scorn to serve you, is the best smith in Svall thine. The Azir and the veneer laughed to see Loki, outfaced by Brock, the dwarf in the middle of his boastfulness. As they laughed, Loki grew hungry. Be silent dwarf, he said. Your brother will know about Smith's work when he goes to the dwarfs who are my friends and learns something from them. He learned from the dwarfs who were your friends. My brother Sindri learned from the dwarfs who are your friends.

Starting point is 00:06:28 Brock roared in a greater rage than before. The things you have brought out of Slavime would not be noticed by the Azir and the veneer if they were put beside the things that my brother Sindri can make. Sometime we will try your brother Sindri and see what he can do, said Loki. Try now, try now, Brock shouted. I'll wager my head against yours, Loki.

Starting point is 00:07:04 That his work will make the dwellers in Asgard. Laugh at your boasting. I will take your wager, said Loki. My head against yours, and glad will be I to see that ugly head of yours. off your misshapen shoulders. The Azir will judge whether my brother's work is not the best that ever came out of Slalheim,

Starting point is 00:07:35 and they will see it that you pay your wager. Loki the head off your shoulders. Will ye not sit in judgment, O dwellers in Asgard? We will sit in judgment, said the Azir. Then still full of rage. Brock, the dwarf, went down to Svlarvime, and to the place where his brother's Sindri worked. There was Sindri in the glowing forge, working with the bellows, an anvil, and hammers beside him, and around him, masses of metal, gold and silver, copper and iron.

Starting point is 00:08:23 Brock told his tale Howie had wagered his head against Loki's That Sindri could make things more wonderful Than the spear and the boat that Loki had brought into Asgard You will write in what you said my brother Said Sindri And you shall not lose your head to Loki But the two of us must work at what I am going

Starting point is 00:08:55 to forge. It will be your work to keep the fire so that it will neither blaze up nor die down for a single instant. If you can keep the fire as I tell you, we will forge a wonder. Now brother, keep your hands upon the bellows and keep the fire under your control. And into the fire, sindry threw not a piece of metal, but a pig skin. Brock kept his hands on the bellows working it so that the fire neither died down nor blazed up for a single instant. And in the glowing fire, the pig skin swelled itself into a strange shape. But Brock was not left to work the bellows in peace. into the forge flew a gladfai. It lightened up rock's hands and stung them,

Starting point is 00:10:06 and the dwarf screamed with pain. But his hands still held the bellows, working to keep the fire steady. For he knew that the gladi was Loki, and that Loki was striving to spoil Sindhry's work. again the gadfly stung his hands but Brock although his hands felt as they were pierced with hot irons

Starting point is 00:10:36 still worked the bellows so that the fire did not place up die down for a single instant Sindhry came and looked into the fire over the shape that was rising there he said words of magic The gadfly had flown away, and Sindri bade his brother. Cease working.

Starting point is 00:11:14 He took out the thing that could have been shaped in the fire, and he worked over it with his hammer. It was a wonder indeed that could fly through the air, and that shed light from its bristles as it flew. The rock forgot the pain in his hands with joy. this is the greatest of wonders he said the dwellers in Asgard will have to give the judgment against Loki I shall have Loki's head

Starting point is 00:12:02 but Sindri said The bull golden bristle May not be judged as a great wonder As the spear Gungir or the boat Skidblaneer We must make something more wonderful still Work the bellows as before brother

Starting point is 00:12:26 And do not let the fire die down Or blaze up for a single instant Then Sindhry took up a piece of gold That was so bright It lightened up the dark cabin That the dwarfs worked in He threw the piece of gold into the fire Then he went to make something else

Starting point is 00:12:53 left Brock to work the bellows. The gadfly flew in again. Brock did not know it was there until it lightened up the back of his neck. It stung him till Brock felt the pain, was wrenching him apart, but still he kept his hands on the bellows, working it so that the fire neither blazed up, nor died down for his scythe,

Starting point is 00:13:32 single instant when Sindri came to look into the fire. Brock was not able to speak for pain. Again Sindri said magic words. Over the gold that was being smelted in the fire, took it out of the glow, and worked it over on the main. Brock something looked like the circle of their son. A splendid armouring my brother, he said. an arm ring for a god's right arm and this ring has hidden wonders every ninth night eight rings like itself will drop from this arm ring

Starting point is 00:14:32 this is drap near the ring of increase to odin the father of the gods the ring shall be given said brock and odin will have to doden will have to do with gods the ring shall be given said brock and odin will have to declare that nothing so wonderful, all so profitable to the guards, was ever brought into Asgard. O Loki, cunning Loki, I shall have thy head in spite of thy tricks. Be not too hasty, brother, said Sindhry. What we have done so far is good, but better still must be the thing that will make the dwellers in Asgard, give the judgment that delivers Loki's head to thee. Work as before, brother, and do not let the fire blaze.

Starting point is 00:15:25 The fire blaze up, all down for a single instant. This time, Sindhry threw into the fire, a bar of iron. Then he went away to fetch the hammer that would change. bit. The clock worked the bellows as before, but only his hands were steady, for every other part of him was trembling with expectation of the gadfly's sting. He saw the gadfly dart into the forge. He screamed as it flew round and round him, searching out a place where it might sting him.

Starting point is 00:16:14 most fearfully it lighted down on his forehead just between his eyes the first thing it gave took the sight from his eyes it stung again and Brock felt the blood flowing down darkness filled the cave

Starting point is 00:16:38 Brock tried to keep his hands steady on the bellows But he did not know whether the fire was blazing up, he shouted and Sindri hurried up. Sindri said the magic words over the thing that was in the fire, and he drew it out. An instant more he said and the work would have been perfect, but because you let the fire die down. For an instant, the work is not as good as it might have been. He took what was shaped in the fire to the main anvil and worked over it. Brock's eyesight came back to him. He saw a great hammer, not seemed to be long enough to balance the head.

Starting point is 00:17:46 This was because the fire had died down for an instant. While it was being formed, the hammer is Mulnir, said Sindhry. And it is the greatest of all things that I am at able to make. All in Asgard must rejoice to see this hammer. For only will be able to win. Not afraid of the judgment that the dwellers in Asgard will give. The dwellers and Asgard will have to give judgment for us. Brock cried out.

Starting point is 00:18:30 They will have to give judgment for us. And the head of Loki, my tormentor, will be given to me. multiple gifts than thee ever been brought into Asgard. Sindri said, Thy head is saved, and thou wilt be able to take the head of Loki, who was insolent to us. Bring it here and we will throw it into the fire in the forge.

Starting point is 00:19:07 The azir and the veneer were seated in the council house of Asgard, when a train of dwarfs appeared before them. Brock came at the head of the train and was followed by a band of dwarfs, carrying things of great weight. Brock and his attendants stood round the throne of Odin into the words of the father of the gods. We know why you've come into Asgard from out of Slavheim, Odin said.

Starting point is 00:19:50 You have brought things wonderful for the dwellers in Asgard. To what you have brought to be seen, Brock, more wonderful and more useful than the things Loki has brought out of Slavime, the spear of Gunggear and the boat Skidbladnear. We will give judgment for you. Then Brock commanded the dwarves who waited on him to show the dwellers in Asgard the first of the wonders that Sindhry had made. They brought out the ball golden bristle.

Starting point is 00:20:40 Round and round the council house the bore flew, leaving a track of brightness. The dwellers in Asgard said one to the other that this was a wonder indeed. but none would say that the ball was a better thing to have an Asgard than the spear that would hit the mark no matter how badly it was flung or the boat skid Bladnear that would sail on any sea

Starting point is 00:21:14 that could be folded up so small that it would fit into anyone's pocket none would say that God and bristle was better than these wonders. To Frey, who was chief of the veneer, Brock gave the wondrous boar. Then the attending dwarfs showed the armring that was as bright as the circle of the sun hired the noble ring. And when it was told how every ninth night, this ring dropped eight rings of gold, that were like itself, the dwellers and Asgard spoke aloud,

Starting point is 00:22:03 or saying that Dravnair the Ring of Ingruce was a wonder indeed. Hearing their voices raised, Brock looked triumphantly at Loki, who was standing there with his lips drawn closely together. To Odin the father of the gods, Brock gave the noble armoury. Then he commanded the attending dwarfs to lay before Thor the hammer Molnir.

Starting point is 00:22:37 Thor took the hammer up and swung it around his head. As he did he uttered a great cry and the eyes of the dwellers in Asgard lightened up when they saw Thor with the hammer Molnir in his hands. The eyes lightened up and their lips came the cry. This is a wonder, a wonder indeed. With this hammer in his hand, none can withstand Thor, our champion.

Starting point is 00:23:12 No greater thing has ever come into Asgard than the hammer Molnir. Then Odin the father of the gods spoke from his throne giving judgment. The hammer more near that the dwarf brock has brought into Asgard is a thing wonderful indeed and profitable to the gods. In Thor's hands it can crush mountains and hurl the giant race from the ramparts of Asgard. Sindhry the dwarf has forged a greater thing than the spear gun near and the boat skidbad near. There can be no other judgment. Brock looked at Loki showing his gnarled teeth. Now Loki, yield your head, yield your head, he cried.

Starting point is 00:24:08 Do not ask such a thing, said Odin. Put any other penalty on Loki for mocking you and tormenting you. Make him yield to you the greatest thing that is in his power to give. Not so, not so, screamed. Brock. You dwellers in Asgard, would shield one another, but what of me? Loki would have taken my head had I lost the wager. Loki has lost his head to me. Let him kneel down now till I cut us off. Loki came forward smiling with closed lips. I kneel before you dwarf, he said. Take off my head, but be careful. Do not touch my.

Starting point is 00:24:56 my neck. I did not bargain that you should touch my neck. If you do, I shall call upon the dwellers and Asgard to punish you. Brock drew back with a snarl. Is this the judgment of the gods he asked? The bargain you made, Brock, said Odin, was an evil one and all its evil consequences you must bear. Brock in a rage looked upon Loki and he saw that his lips were smiling. He stamped his feet and raged. Then he went up to Loki and said, I may not take your head but I can do something with your lips that mock me. What would you do dwarf? said Thor. So Loki's lips together said Brock, so that he can do no more mischief with his talk.

Starting point is 00:25:58 You dwellers in Asgard cannot forbid me to do this. Down, Loki on your knees before me. Loki looked round on the dwellers in Asgard and saw that their judgment was that he must kneel before the dwarf. He knelt down with a frown upon his brow. Draw your lips together, Loki, said Brock. Loki drew his lips together while his eyes flashed fire Within all that he took from his belt

Starting point is 00:26:30 Brock pierced Loki's lips He took out a thong and tightened them together Then in triumph the dwarf looked on Loki Oh Loki said you boasted that the dwarfs who worked for you Were better craftsmen than cindering my brother Your words have been shown to be lies and now you cannot boast for a while. Then Brock the dwarf with great majesty

Starting point is 00:26:58 walked out of the council house of Asgard and attending dwarfs marched behind him in procession on the passages in the earth the dwarfs went singing the song of Brock's triumph over Loki. And in Slavine it was told forever after how Sindhry and Brock had prevailed In Asgard now that Loki's lips were closed

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Starting point is 00:29:41 This will teach Loki to work no more mischief. They did not know that what Loki had done had sown the seeds of mischief, and these seeds were soon to sprout up and bring sorrow to the beautiful, Vanna Freya To Freya Whom the giant wanted a carry off with the sun and the moon as payment

Starting point is 00:30:11 for his building the wall around Asgard Freya had looked upon the wonders that Loki had brought into Asgard the golden threads that were Siff's hair and Frey's bore they shed light from its bristles as it flew the gleam of these golden things dazzled her

Starting point is 00:30:37 and made her dream in the daytime the wonders that she might herself possess and she thought what wonderful things the three giant women would give me if I could bring myself to go to them on their mountaintop long ear this when the wall around their city was not yet built

Starting point is 00:31:10 and when the gods had set up only the court with their 12 seats and the hall that was for Odin and the hall that was for the goddesses there had come into Asgard three giant women they came after the gods had set up a forge and had begun to work metal for their buildings

Starting point is 00:31:36 The metal they worked was pure gold With gold they built Gladsheim The Hall of Odin And with gold they made All their dishes and household wear Then was the age of gold And the gods did not grudge gold to anyone

Starting point is 00:31:59 Happy were the gods then And no shadow Nor forbading lay on Asgard But after the three giant women The gods began to value gold And to hoard it They played with it no more

Starting point is 00:32:18 And the happy innocence Of their first days Departed from them At last the three were banished From Asgard The gods turned their thoughts From the hoarding of gold And they built up their city

Starting point is 00:32:34 And they made them strong. Now Freya, the lovely veneer bride, thought upon the giant women, and on the wonderful things of gold they had flashed through their hands. But not to Odor her husband, she did not speak her thoughts, for older, more than any of the other dwellers in Asgard, was want to think of the days of happy innocence, before gold came to be hoarded and valued. Odor would not have Freya go near the mountaintop, where the three had their high seat. But Freya did not cease to think upon them, and upon the things of gold they had. Why should Odor know I went to them, she said to herself?

Starting point is 00:33:32 No one will tell him, and what difference would it make if I go to them and gain some lovely thing for myself? I shall not love Odor the less because I go my own way for once the one day she left their palace leaving Odor her husband playing with their little children Honesa she left the palace and went down to the earth

Starting point is 00:34:00 there she stayed for a while tending the flowers that were her charge. After a while she asked the elves to tell her where the mountain was on, which the three giant women stayed. The elves were frightened and would not tell her, although she was queen over them,

Starting point is 00:34:25 she left them and stole down into the caves of the dwarfs. It was they who showed her the way to the sea, to the giant women, but before they showed her the way, they made her feel shame and misery. We will show you the way if you stay with us here, said one of the dwarfs. For how long would you have me stay, said Freya. Until the coxins flav lime crow, said the dwarfs closing round her. We want to know what the company of one of the veneer is like, I will stay, Freya said, and one of the dwarfs reached up and put his arms round her neck and kissed her with his ugly mouth.

Starting point is 00:35:16 Freya tried to break away from them, but the dwarfs held her. You cannot go away from us until the cocks of Slavheim Crow, they said, and then another of the dwarfs pressed up to her and kissed her. They made her sit down beside them on the heaps of the skins they had. When she wept, they screamed at her and beat her. One, when she would not kiss him on the mouth, bit her hands. So Freya stayed with the dwarfs until the cocks of Slatham crew. They showed her the mountain on the top, of which the three banished from Asgard, had their abode.

Starting point is 00:36:04 The giant women sat overlooking the world of men. What would you have from his wife of Odor, one who was called Golvig said to her. Alas, now that I have found you, I know that I should ask for naught, Freya said. Speak, Varna, said the second of the giant women. The third said nothing, but she held up in her hands, a necklace of gold, most curiously fashioned. How bright it is, Freya said. There is shadow where you sit, women, but the necklace you hold makes brightness now.

Starting point is 00:36:50 Oh, how I should joy to wear it. It is the necklace, brings in the men, said the one who was called Gelveig. It is yours to wear, wife of Odol, said the one who held it in her hands. Freya took the shining necklace, and put it around her throat. She could not bring herself to thank the giant women,

Starting point is 00:37:16 for she saw there was evil in their eyes. She made reverence to them, however, and went down the mountain on which they sat overlooking the world of men. Well, she looked down and saw Bringsigman, and her misery went from her. It was the most beautiful thing ever made by hands. none of the isner and none of the vener possessed a thing so beautiful it made her more and more lovely

Starting point is 00:37:50 an odour she thought would forgive her when you saw how beautiful and happy brings a man made her she rose up from amongst the flowers and took leave of the slight elves and made her way to wasgard All who greeted her looked long, and with the wonder upon the necklace that she wore, and into the eyes of the goddesses there came a look of longing when they saw the necklace. But Freya hardly stopped to speak to anyone.

Starting point is 00:38:27 As swiftly as she could make her way to her own place, she could show herself to Oda and win his forgiveness. She entered her shining power. and called to him. No answer came. Her child, the little Hanesa, was on the floor playing. Her mother took her in her arms, but the child, when she looked at the necklace, turned away crying, Freya left her Nusser down and searched again for Odor. He was not in any part of their palace. She went into the houses of all who dwelt. in Asgard, asking for tidings of him.

Starting point is 00:39:16 None knew where he had gone. At last Freya went back to their palace and waited for Odor to return. But Odor did not come. One came to her. It was the goddess Odin's wife, the Queenly Frigger. You are waiting for Odell, your husband Frigger said, Ah, let me tell you, Oda will not come to you here. He went when, for the sake of a shining thing,

Starting point is 00:39:49 you did what would make him unhappy. Oda has gone from Oursgaard, and no one knows where to search for him. I will seek him outside of Asgard, Freya said. She wept no more, but she took down the little child, Hanessa, and put her in Frigge's arms. Then she mounted her car that was drawn by two cats and journeyed down from Asgard to Midgard,

Starting point is 00:40:22 the earth, to search for Adir her husband. Year in and year out and all over the earth, Freya went searching and calling for the lost Odor. She went as far as the bounds of the earth. as far as the bounds of the earth, where she could look over to Jottenhelm, where dwelt the giant who would have carried her off with the sun and the moon as payments for the building of the wall around Asgard. But in no place, from the end of the rainbow by-frost, that stretched from Asgard to the earth

Starting point is 00:41:03 To the boundary of Jottenhelm Did she find a trace of her husband Odell At last she turned her car toward Bifrost the rainbow bridge But stretched from Midgard The earth to Asgard The dwelling of the gods

Starting point is 00:41:23 Heimdel the watcher for the gods guarded the rainbow bridge To him frayers went with her half hope, fluttering in her heart. Oh, Heimdell, she cried, O Heimdell, Watcher for the gods, speak to me if you know what Oda is. Odor is in every place where the searcher has not come. Odor is in every place that the searcher has left.

Starting point is 00:41:56 Those who seek him will never find Odor, said Heimdell, the watcher of the gods. Then Freya stood on Bifrost and wept Frigger, the queenly goddess, heard the sound of her weeping and came out of Asgard to comfort her What comfort can you give me Frigger? said Freya What comfort can you give me when Odor will never be found by one who searches for him? Behold how your daughter the child Hanessa has grown

Starting point is 00:42:31 said Frigier Frey looked up and saw a beautiful maiden standing on the Bifrost the rainbow bridge She was young more youthful than any of the veneer Or the Yassanir And her face and her form was so lovely That all hearts became melted when they looked upon her

Starting point is 00:42:53 And Freya was comforted in her loss She followed Frigga across Bifrost The rainbow bridge and came once again into the city of the gods. In her own palace in Asgard, Freya dwelt with Hanesa her child. She still wore around her neck the necklace that had lost her Odil, but now she wore it not for its splendour, but as a sign of the wrong she had done.

Starting point is 00:43:26 She wept and her tears became golden drops. as they fall on the earth. And by poets who know her story, she is called the beautiful lady in tears.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Bedtime Stories - Old Viking Legends

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