You find yourself safe in a Viking longhouse as a snowstorm rises | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are safe and warm in a Viking age longhouse on a Norwegian fjord, more than a thousand years ago, as the first great snowstorm of winter rises off the sea. Guest right is given at the door, there is stew from a soapstone pot and warm flatbread off the griddle stone, wool and woodsmoke, the animals breathing in the byre at the end of the hall, an old man's quiet true story by the fire, and then the long fire is tucked in under ash for the night while the storm sings over the turf roof and the whole farm sleeps around you.

You will hear the long hearth fire settling in the hall, the animals moving softly in the byre, and a winter storm singing over the turf roof beyond the thick timber walls.

This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly around the 39 minute mark, and then the storm and the embers carry on in the dark until morning. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
3:36 The Fjord Path at Dusk
6:07 The Door
9:06 The Long Fire
13:11 The Supper
16:54 The Byre End
20:07 The Evening Work
24:37 The Elder's Tale
29:36 Banking the Fire
32:14 The Box Bed
35:06 Drifting
39:22 The storm and the embers until morning

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New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.

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Sources: Havamal, the old Norse counsel verses, in The Poetic Edda, translated by Carolyne Larrington; Else Roesdahl, The Vikings; Kirsten Wolf, Daily Life of the Vikings; Ohthere's Voyages, edited by Janet Bately and Anton Englert; the words window (from Old Norse vindauga) and husband (from Old Norse husbondi), Oxford English Dictionary.

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