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Giants of Legends Giants of Legends
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Welcome to Giants of Legends. I am your hostess Ana Karenina. In this podcast, I will introduce you to the monsters, demons, gods, and heroes of Norse mythology. The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling – from Tolkien, Alan Garner, and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics.
Tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanized by Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern readers and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a free
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Episode 1 - Introduction & Before the beginning and after.
Episode 1 - Introduction & Before the beginning and after.
Before the beginning, there was nothing—no earth, no heavens, no stars, no sky: only the mist world, formless and shapeless, and the fire world, always burning. To the north was Niflheim, the dark world. Here eleven poisonous rivers cut through the mist, each springing from the same well at the center of it all, the roaring maelstrom called Hvergelmir. Niflheim was colder than cold, and the murky mist that cloaked everything hung heavily. The skies were hidden by mist and the ground was clouded by the chilly fog. To the south was Muspell. Muspell was a fire. Everything there glowed and burned. Muspell was light where Niflheim was gray, molten lava where the mist world was frozen.
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