312-Norwegian Folklore: Let's Dance

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A Norwegian tale about why you should pay your employees a living wage (or at least not beat them and try to have them executed), or else you could end up in a never-ending dance party.

The creature is why you should avoid home improvement projects like the plague...because you could be literally plagued with wood and earth imps.

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Music:
"Chai Belltini" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Pedalrider" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Single Still" by Blue Dot Sessions
"The Yards" by Blue Dot Sessions

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0:00.0	This week, by Myths and Legends, it's a story from Norwegian folklore about how all your problems
0:05.1	can be solved by a dance party and, by yes, you do want to buy that stranger some badly needed
0:10.8	pants, for reasons other than the obvious ones. The creatures this week are why I don't like
0:16.7	home improvement projects. Of the my laziness and lack of skills, it's because they attract wood
0:22.4	amps. This is Myths and Legends, Episode 312. Let's Dance.
0:39.1	This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly
0:43.4	popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are tales you
0:47.6	might not have heard, but really should. Today's episode comes from Norwegian folklore.
0:52.3	From 1800s and a tale from Peter Christian Aspjörnsen. This time, we meet a young man named Freddy.
1:09.4	The family was in a pinch, between a rock and a hard place, stuck, because work was scarce,
1:15.9	food even harder to find, their family was a father and a son. Father and Freddy. Freddy, however,
1:23.6	was described as weak and into declining health, and he couldn't do just any job. They had begged
1:30.5	from neighbors and pastors by for a while, but these days, at the sight of their faces, people turned
1:36.8	and walked faster. No, they didn't have anything to spare, or else they wouldn't have anything left
1:42.2	for them. You could only ask the same person about 40 times for help. The pool was tapped out.
1:48.8	Come on, Freddy. The father said one day, the cupboards were bare, the pantry full of nothing but
1:54.8	cobwebs. Maybe Freddy could be a cowherd or run errands. They would go see. Everyone looked at the
2:01.6	boy once and shook their heads. Some made an excuse, most just went about their day. The local
2:08.8	sheriff was the only one to cock his head and stare with a tight mouth the second longer.
2:15.4	Okay. The father and Freddy, the father and Freddy could barely believe it. Wait, seriously?
2:23.3	A job. The sheriff nodded. Yep, he actually just fired his last errand boy. After a beating,
2:30.0	of course, having a hard time finding someone else to work for him. Turned out people with
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