This week, on Myths and Legends, it's a Viking love story.

But before we get there, we'll see some Viking feuds, meet an evil troll who's never read

the monkey's paw story, and the bandit bros Sam and Falafel.

The creature this week is a chill hipster merman and his murderous girlfriend.

This is Myths and Legends, episode 339, Fjord of the Rings.

Previously on the podcast, Viking, a Viking, married Finna, the daughter of a yarl.

They had nine sons, the oldest kids being Thorstein and Thorough.

The local king, Norfie, was Vikings' older rating buddy, alongside Vikings' blood brother,

and Norfie had something of an intensely competitive friendship.

Norfie had nine sons as well, and, after one bonked Thorough on the head, the son of Norfie

had an accident, where he fell on a spear Thorough was carrying, when Thorough was walking around

his house in the middle of the night uninvited.

To avoid the wrath of the princes, the sons of Viking fled to a lake safehouse, Viking kept.

The Joker, Norfie's oldest, befriended a sorcerer troll, Ogitan, who allowed them to sneak

up on the cabin with a team of thirty warriors in the dead of night.

And that's how I met your mother, Thorough's time beamed.

Thorough's son just looked back and forth up, what?

He didn't say anything, he just left off when Jokel and the berserkers were walking across

the ice, about to raid the cabin.

Thorough's time thought about it, oh, yeah, okay, um, well, he lived, obviously, for

Thorough's scald, well, your grandpa pulled me out, Viking, Thorough's time said, you

know, when he came to bury his sons, the smile faded from Thorough's time's face.

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