Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Foreboding in Asgard and Loki The Betrayer (Norse Myths)

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Starting point is 00:01:21 If you have, you'll probably like The History of Egypt podcast. Every week, we explore tales of this ancient culture. The history of Egypt is available. wherever you get your podcasting fix. Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. Welcome to Slink Cave, the place to get a great night's sleep. Tonight, I'm continuing reading a collection of Norse myths from the book The Children of Owners. The two stories tonight, which describe how local.

Starting point is 00:02:12 became possessed and wanted to betray Thor and the gods. I'll soon be putting playlists together, so watch out for a playlist in the description for all the Norse story content. This story does have some violent thieves, so if you think it's not for you, please choose another episode. so please get comfortable. Begin. The Children of Odin continues. Part 3.

Starting point is 00:02:59 The Witch's Heart, foreboding in Asgard. What happened afterwards is to the shame of the gods, and mortals may hardly speak of it. Galveig, the witch came into Asgard. for Heimdell might not forbid her entrance She came within And she had her seat Amongst the Azea and the veneer

Starting point is 00:03:31 She walked through Asgard With a smile upon her face And where she walked And where she smiled Care and dire foreboding came Those who felt the care and the foreboding, most deeply, were Braggie the poet and his wife, the fair and simple Eduna, she who gathered the apples, that kept age from the dwellers in Asgard.

Starting point is 00:04:08 Braggie ceased to tell his never-ending tale, then one day, overcome by the feet, and the foreboding that was creeping through Asgard. Eduna slipped down Yiddrasal the wild tree, and no one was left to pluck the apples, with which the Azir and the veneer stayed their youth. The dwellers in Asgard in sore dismay. Strength and beauty, began to fade from all, found it hard to lift Milnear, his great hammer, and the flesh under Freya's

Starting point is 00:05:03 necklace lost its white radiance. And still, Galvig, the witch, walked smiling through Asgard, although now she was hated by all. It was Odin and Frey, who went in search of Eduna. She would have been found and brought back without delay if Frey had had with him the magic sword that he had bartered for Gerdrda. In his search, he had to strive with the one who guarded the lake, wherein Eduna had hidden herself.

Starting point is 00:05:50 Belly was the one he strove against. He overcame him in the end with a weapon made of Sturg's armours. It was not then, but later that Frey lamented the loss of his sword. It was when the riders of Muspel came again, against Asgard and the veneer who might have prevailed, prevailed not, because of the loss of Frey's sword. They found Duna and they brought her back, but still, care and foremoding crept through Asgard, and it was known too that the witch Golvig was changing the thoughts of the Gargarde. at last Odin had to judge Golvig. He judged her and decreed her death. Gung Nia, the spear of Odin,

Starting point is 00:07:01 might slay Golvig. Who was not of mortal race? Gung near, the spear went through Golvig, but still she stood smiling at the gods. A second time, Oden hurled his spear. A second time, gun near, pierced the witch. She stood livid, as one dead, but fell not down. A third time, Odin hurled his spear, pierced for the third time. The witch gave a scream that made all Asgard shudder, and she fell undone. on the ground. I have slain in these halls where slaying is forbidden, Odin said. Now take the corpse of Golvig and burn it on the ramparts, so there are no trace of the witch

Starting point is 00:08:11 who has troubled us will remain in Asgard. They brought the corpse of Golvig the witch, and they brought the corpse of Golvig the witch, and they lighted fires under the Parnon, which they elayed her, and they called upon Heresvulga to fan up the flame. Heresvulga is the giant who on heaven's edge sits in the guise of an eagle. It is said, rushed down on earth from his outspreading pinions. Far away was Loki when all this was being done. Often now he went from Asgard

Starting point is 00:09:03 and his journeys were to look upon what wondrous treasures that had passed from the keeping of the dwarf and Vare. It was Golvig who had kept the imagination of their, treasure within his mind. Now, when he came back and heard the whispers of what had been done framed up within him, for Loki was one of those minds which was being changed by the presence and the whispers of the witch Galveig. His mind was being changed to hatred of the gods. Now he went to the place of Golby expurning.

Starting point is 00:09:59 All her body was in ashes, but her heart had not been devoured by the flames. And Loki, in his rage, took the heart of the witch and ate it, and dieful was it in Asgard, the day that Loki ate to the heart that the flames. would not devour Loki the betrayer. He stole Frigge's dress of falcon feathers. Then as a falcon, he flew out of Asgard. Yottenheim was the place that he flew toward. The anger and the fierceness of the hawk was within Loki

Starting point is 00:11:03 as he flew through the giant's rail. The heights and the chasms of that dread land made his spirits mount up like fire. He saw the whirlpools and the smoking mountains and had joy of these sights. Higher and higher he sawed with his falcons eyes he saw the gleam of Sertr's flaming sword

Starting point is 00:11:38 All the fire of Muspelheim and all the groom of Yottenheim would one day be brought against Asgard and against Midgard But Loki was no longer dismayed To think of the ruin of Asgard's beauty and the ruin of Midgard's promise. He hovered around one of the dwellings in Yotenheim.

Starting point is 00:12:13 Why had he come to it? Because he had seen two of the women of that dwelling, and his rage against the Iznir and the Veneer was such that the ugliness and the evil of these women was pleasing to him. He hovered before the open door of the giant's house, and he looked upon those. Geriot, the most savage of the giants was there, and besides him, squatting on the ground,

Starting point is 00:12:54 were his two evil and ugly daughters. Gialp and Grip They were big and bulky and rugged With horses' teeth and hair That was like horses' mains Gialp was the uglier of the two If one could be said to be uglier than the other For her nose

Starting point is 00:13:24 Was a yard along And her eye What were they talking about as they sat there? One scratching the other. Of Asgard and the dwellers in Asgard, whom they hated. Thor was the one, whom they hated, most of all. And they were speaking of all they would like to do to him. They would keep Thor bound in chains, said Gisgift.

Starting point is 00:14:02 Geroid the giant, and I would beat him to death with my iron club. I would grind his bones to powder, said Grip. I would tear the flesh of his bones, said Gialp. Father, can you not catch this thaw and bring him to us alive? Not so long, as he has, his hammer, meal near him. and the gloves with which he grasps his hammer that doubles his strength. If he could catch him without his hammer and his belt and his gloves, cried gout and greep together.

Starting point is 00:14:59 At that moment they saw the falcon hovering before the door. They were eager now for something to hold and to hold and to. torment, and so the hearts of the three became set upon catching the falcon. They did not stare from the place where they were sitting, but they called the child Galap, who were swinging from the roof tree, and they bade him go out and try to catch the falcon. All concealed by the great leaves, the child Glap climbed the ivy that was around the door. The falcon came hovering near, then Glap caught it by the wings and fell down through the ivy, screaming and struggling as he was being beaten and clawed.

Starting point is 00:16:04 and torn by the wings and the taverns and the beak of the falcon. Geroid and Gereep and Gael rushed out and kept hold of the falcon. As the giant held him in his hands and looked him over, he knew that this was no bird creature. The eyes showed him. him to be of Arthheim or Asgard. The giant took him and shut him in a box till he would speak. Soon he tapped at the closed box and when Gerard opened it,

Starting point is 00:16:55 Loki spoke to him. So glad was the savage giant to have one of the dwellers in Asgard in his power that he and his daughters did nothing but laugh and chuckle to each other for days all this time

Starting point is 00:17:17 they left Loki in the closed box to waste with hunger when they opened the box again Loki spoke to them he told them he would do any injury to the dwellers in Asgard, that would please them if they would let him go.

Starting point is 00:17:43 Will you bring thought to us, said Griep, will you bring Thor to us without his hammer, and without the gloves with which he grasps his hammer, and without his belt, said Gia. I will bring him to you. If you will let me go, Loki said, Thor is easily deceived, and I can bring him to you without his hammer and his belt and his gloves. We will let you go, Loki, said the giant, if you will swear by the groom of Yottenheim

Starting point is 00:18:29 that you will bring Thor to us as you say. Loki swore That he would do so by the gloom of Yottenheim Ye and by the fires of Muspelheim He added The giant and his daughters Let him go And he flew back to Asgard

Starting point is 00:18:52 He restored to Frigar Her falcon dress Or blamed him For having stolen it But when he told how he had been shut up without food in Gerrard's dwelling those who judged him

Starting point is 00:19:11 thought he had been punished enough for the theft he spoke as before to the dwellers in Asgard and the rage and hatred he had against them since he had eaten Golvig's heart he kept from bursting forth

Starting point is 00:19:32 forth. He talked to Thor of the adventures they had together in Yottenheim with the laughter when he talked of the time when he went as a bride to Thrim the giant. Loki was able to persuade him to make another journey to Yottenheim and I want to speak to you of what I saw in Geroid's dwelling, he said. I saw there the hair of Siff, your wife. The hair of Siff, my wife, said Thor in surprise. Yes, the hair I once cut off from Siff's head, said Lerky. Geriot was the one who found it when I cast it away.

Starting point is 00:20:37 They lit their hall with Siff's hair. Oh yes. They light the hallway with it. Yes, the hair I once cut off from Siff's head, said Loki. Gerrit was the one who found it when I cast it away. They lighted their hall with Siff's hair. Oh yes. They don't need torches.

Starting point is 00:21:07 where Siff's hair is. I should like to see it, said Thor. Then pay Gerrite a visit, Loki replied, But if you go to his house, you will have to go without your hammer, Milneur, and without your gloves and your belt. Where would I leave Milneur, and my gloves and my belt?

Starting point is 00:21:36 Thor asked. Leave them in Valishgarf, Odin's own dwelling, said Kunning Loki. Leave them there and come to Gerrard's dwelling. Surely you will be well treated there. Yes, I will leave them in Valak's Garth and go with you to Gerrite's dwelling, Thor said. Thor left his hammer. his gloves and his belt in a valet scarf. Then he and Loki went to Yotenheim.

Starting point is 00:22:16 When they were near the end of their journey, they came to a wide river, and with a young giant, who they met, they began to ford it. Suddenly, the river began to rise. Loki and the giant Would have been swept away Only Thor

Starting point is 00:22:43 ripped both of them Higher and higher The river rose And rougher And rougher it became Had to plant his feet firmly on the bottom Or he

Starting point is 00:23:03 And the two he held Would have been swept down by the flood. He struggled across, holding Loki and the young giant. A mountain ash grew out of the bank, and while the tomb held to him, he grasped it with his hands. The river rose still higher, but the full was able to draw Loki and the young giant to the bank and then he himself scrambled upon it. Now looking out the river, he saw a sight that filled him with rage. A giantess was pouring a flood into it.

Starting point is 00:24:01 This it was that was making the river rise. and seeth. Thore pulled a rock out of the bank and hurled it at her. It struck her and flung her into the flood, that he struggled out of the water and went yelping away. This joined us was Gial and Giroz's ugly and evil daughter. Nothing would do the young giant Who Thor had helped across But that the pair would go And visit Grid his mother Who lived in a cave on the hillside

Starting point is 00:24:49 Loki would not go And was angered to hear that Thor Thought of going That Thor seeing that the giant youth was friendly, was winning enough to go to Grids' dwelling. Go then, they get soon to Gerroids' dwelling yonder. I will wait for you there, said Loki. He watched Thor go up the hillside to Grids' cave.

Starting point is 00:25:26 He waited until he saw Thor come back down the hillside. and go to Gerard's dwelling. He watched Thor go into the house, where, as he thought, madness, for what he had done. Loki, with his head, drawn down on his shoulders, started running like a bird along the ground. Grid, the old giantess,

Starting point is 00:26:03 were seated on the floor of the cave, grinding corn, between two stones. Who is it? She said, as her son led Thor within. One of the Assyre, what giant did you go to injure now? As a Thor, I go to injure. No giant old grid. Thor replied Look upon me Cannot you see That I have not milnear

Starting point is 00:26:41 My mighty hammer with me Nor my belt Nor my gloves of iron But where in Yotenheim do you go To the house Of a friendly giant Old Grid

Starting point is 00:26:57 To the house of Gerard Geroad Gerard, a friendly giant, you are out of your wits, Asothor. Is he not out of his wits, my son? This one, who saved you from the flood, as you say, tell him of Gerard's old mother, said the giant youth. Do not go to his house, Asothor, do not go to his house. My word has been given And I should be a craven

Starting point is 00:27:34 If I stayed away now Just because An old crone Sitting at a cairn stone Tells me I am going into a trap I will give you something That will help you as a thaw Lucky for you

Starting point is 00:27:53 I am a mistress Of magical things Take this staff in your hands Is a staff instead of meal near I will take it Since you offer it in kindness old dame This worm eaten staff These mittens too

Starting point is 00:28:20 They will serve you For your gauntlets of iron I will take them since You offer them in kindness old dame These worn Old mittens and take this length of string it will serve you

Starting point is 00:28:39 for your belt of prowess I will take it since you offer it in kindness all day this ragged length of string tis well indeed for you as a Thor a dire mistress

Starting point is 00:28:59 of magical things Thor put the warm string around his waist That grid the old mistress of magical things For immediately He felt his strength Augmented As when he put on his own belt of strength He then drew on the mittens

Starting point is 00:29:32 And took the staff That she had gave him in his hands he left the cave of Grid, jointess, and went to Gereat's dwelling. Loki was not there. It was then that Thor began to think that perhaps Old Grid was right

Starting point is 00:29:59 and that a trap was being laid for him. No one was in the hall. He came out of the hall and into a great stone chamber and he saw no one there either but in the centre of the stone chamber there was a stone seat and seated himself upon it

Starting point is 00:30:29 no sooner was he seated than the chair flew upwards being crushed against the stone roof only that he held his staff up. So great was the power in the staff, so great was the strength that the string around him gave, that the chair was thrust downward. The stone chair crashed down upon the stone floor. There were horrible screams from and lifted up the seat and saw two ugly brooky. bodies there. The giant's daughters, gilped and green, had hidden themselves under the chair to

Starting point is 00:31:26 watch his death. But the stone that was to have crushed him against the ceiling had crushed them against the floor, strode out of that chamber, with his teeth, sat hard, and great fire was blazing in the hall and standing beside that fire he saw Gerard he held a set of tongues into the fire he lifted up the tongues

Starting point is 00:32:09 and flung from it a blazing wedge of iron it whizzed straight toward falls forehead put up his hands and caught the blazing wedge of iron between the mittens that old grid had given him. Quickly, he hurried back at the giant, and it struck him on the forehead and went blazing through him. Geront crashed down into the fire,

Starting point is 00:32:46 and the burning iron made a blaze all around him. He went there to restore to the old giantess, the string, the mittens, and the staff of power she had given him. He saw the giants dwelling in such a blaze that one would think the fires of Muspelhelm were all.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Foreboding in Asgard and Loki The Betrayer (Norse Myths)

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