Norse Mythology Sleep Story · The Younger Edda Complete · Male Voice by the Fire | Odin, Thor & Loki

The Younger Edda — Snorri's Edda, the old Norse book of the gods — complete and unabridged, read slowly in a calm male voice beside a crackling fire, in one night — 5 hours 6 minutes. This is the book the North wrote down so its gods would not be forgotten: the making of the world from the body of a giant; Odin the Alfather and one-handed Tyr; Thor's journey to Utgard, where he wrestles old age herself and drinks from a horn whose end is in the sea; Loke the trickster and his monstrous children; the death of bright Balder, the god no one could weep back from the dead; and Ragnarok, the long twilight of the gods. After it come the old skald-tales — Idun and her apples of youth, the origin of poetry, and the cursed gold of the Niflungs. If you know J. R. R. Tolkien: this is the book where the dwarves of Middle-earth got their names. Thorin, Dvalin, Durin — and Gandalf — all appear in its catalogue of dwarves, and Middle-earth itself is this book's Midgard, the world of men between the heavens and the deep. What you hear is the real thing: Rasmus B. Anderson's classic translation of 1880, complete — foreword, all seventeen chapters of The Fooling of Gylfe, the afterword, and the tales of the skalds. As a sleep audiobook it runs 5 hours 6 minutes in one unbroken reading: one low male voice at one slow pace, a real fireplace burning quietly underneath, no music, no sudden sounds. The fire is at its brightest in the first minute and settles low as the reading begins. Good for: falling asleep to an audiobook, insomnia nights, or night shifts. ▶ Playlist — The Books Behind Tolkien: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4xfeudEKeE ▶ Previous: The Volsunga Saga, complete (4 hours 46 minutes): https://youtu.be/7HlNZJOOSMo ▶ Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDzLrIvCkDb_HUN98R8jxZA If you plan to fall asleep, turn Autoplay off or set a sleep timer — otherwise YouTube will start another video when this one ends. 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:38 Foreword 0:30:17 The Fooling of Gylfe I. Gefjun’s Plowing 0:32:00 The Fooling of Gylfe II. Gylfe’s Journey To Asgard 0:35:48 The Fooling of Gylfe III. Of The Highest God 0:37:56 The Fooling of Gylfe IV. The Creation Of The World 0:49:52 The Fooling of Gylfe V 0:59:18 The Fooling of Gylfe VI. The First Works Of The Asas. The Golden Age 1:03:06 The Fooling of Gylfe VII. On The Wonderful Things In Heaven 1:13:46 The Fooling of Gylfe VIII. The Asas 1:32:56 The Fooling of Gylfe IX. Loke And His Offspring 1:44:01 The Fooling of Gylfe X 1:49:45 The Fooling of Gylfe XI 1:53:35 The Fooling of Gylfe XII. Life In Valhal 2:01:08 The Fooling of Gylfe XIII. Odin’s Horse And Frey’s Ship 2:08:07 The Fooling of Gylfe XIV. Thor’s Adventures 2:43:00 The Fooling of Gylfe XV. The Death Of Balder 2:59:53 The Fooling of Gylfe XVI. Ragnarok 3:10:10 The Fooling of Gylfe XVII. Regeneration 3:16:14 Afterword I 3:17:55 Afterword II. Idun And Her Apples 3:23:07 Afterword III. How Njord Got Skade To Wife 3:25:52 Afterword IV. The Origin Of Poetry 3:36:07 To Brage’s Talk 3:41:01 Thor And Hrungner 3:53:30 Thor’s Journey To Geirrod’s 4:05:18 Idun 4:14:28 Loke’s Wager With The Dwarfs 4:21:05 The Niflungs And Gjukungs 4:45:37 Menja And Fenja 4:48:59 The Grottesong 4:55:53 Rolf Krake 5:03:04 Hogne And Hild — About this channel — We read old books aloud, slowly, until you fall asleep — complete public domain texts, one soft voice, no music breaks. Also on this channel: the Arabian Nights, read one night at a time. — Text & voice — Read from Rasmus B. Anderson's translation of the Younger Edda (1880, public domain, via Project Gutenberg), the reading text only (the preface, introduction and notes are not included). Narration is AI-generated speech, produced and edited by this channel. Fireplace recording by visionear (freesound.org, CC0). #sleepstory #audiobook #norsemythology