S2E12: Gylfaginning: A Chapter Breakdown
Shawn presents a short solo episode during our brief mid-season break. Shawn talks about the history of Snori Sturluson’s Prose Edda and the book Gylfaggining. Outlining the chapters where King Gylfi ...
23 Sep 202218min
S2E11: Balder's Ominous Dreams (Part 3)
The third and final installment in our series on the Ominous Dreams of the Beautiful Balder. Continuing Chapter 49 of Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda. A funeral pyre boat is prepared for Balder. Many o...
16 Sep 202253min
S2E10: Balder's Ominous Dreams (Part 2)
Continuing our series on the Ominous Dreams of the Beautiful Balder. Chapter 49 of Gylfaganing in the Prose Edda. Odin fears that his son’s premonitions of death will come true and Balder’s mother, ...
9 Sep 202241min
S2E9: Balder's Ominous Dreams (Part 1)
In this episode, Shawn and David discuss Balder's Draumar, a poem that is typically found in copies of the Poetic Edda, though not found in the Codex Regius Manuscript. In this short poem, Odin travel...
2 Sep 202239min
S2E8: Fenrir's Torture and Tyr's Hand
Continuing with the “Monstrous Children of Loki”, This week we discuss Fenrir the Wolf and his particular connection with the god Tyr. Shawn discusses once again the idea of fate in this myth, as the ...
26 Aug 202239min
S2E7: The Children of Loki
We return to the stories of Loki, “The cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.” This week Loki settles down and becomes a family man. Raising one or two children with the goddess Sigyn and he...
19 Aug 202238min
S2E6: Loki, Sleipnir, and the Walls of Asgard
We are taking a bit of a break this week and releasing a short episode. David had some interpretations on S2 Episode 4 that came to him a few days after the episode was released and clarifying his exp...
12 Aug 202210min
S2E5: D&D and Norse Mythology - An Interview with Kyle Kuypers
Our third guest interview. Kyle Kuypers is a friend/co-worker of Shawn and a generally eclectic individual who is passionate about Mythology, Story Telling, Dungeons & Dragons, and he co-hosts a fan p...
5 Aug 20221h 1min
