This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, it's the first part of the story of Arrow Odd,

a legendary Viking warrior. You'll see why it's somehow a bad idea to steal culture's secret artifacts,

and then throw them in the river, and that if a moderately drunk Viking with a stick doesn't want

to hear what you have to say, maybe just don't tell them what you have to say. On the creature of the

week, you'll learn why it might be suspicious if gold cups follow it up to you the next time you're standing by this sea.

This is the Myths and Legends podcast, episode 31A, Odd Man Out.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from folklore. Some of the incredibly popular stories you

think you know, but with surprising origins, other stories you might not have heard, but really should.

Okay, so we're back in the Icelandic sagas, and these are clearly legendary, and not really historical.

Though they take place in actual locations. We've talked about the Viking Age, and it was from

about the 8th century to the 11th century in Europe. The stories of the Volsungs and Ragnar

Lothbrook took place in this time period, but as you'll quickly see, the story is told much later

in the Viking Age. For Sigmund and Ragnar, sealing West and Rating was still kind of a novel thing,

and so they were mainly fighting those whom they were Rating. This story is much different,

and that you'll quickly see that there are Vikings everywhere. And that our protagonist,

a man named Odd, mainly fights other Vikings for the ability to raid certain places. It's a different

interesting angle. Anyway, that's enough of an intro, and we'll jump into the story.

Odd hated witches. He told his foster father that he didn't want anything to do with the sorceress.

He didn't care for any of that nonsense. Magic, prophecies, sacrifice it to the gods. He trusted

his own strength, and little else. Odd hated witches, and his foster father had invited a witch to

dinner. That's why, instead of attending dinner, he had so much to drink that he had to lay down

on a nearby bench. The sorceress would go to feasts and use her second sight to tell people how

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