347: Viking Legends: Fool Me Once

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The story of Ketil Trout is about growing up and learning to be your own person. It's a coming-of-age tale with giant fights, dragon slaying, and outlaw who know way to many trout facts.

The creature, Nure-onna, is that woman down by the beach who is not-so-secretly also a quarter-mile-long snake.

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Music:

"Elmore Heights" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Vik Fence Lardha" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Steady" by Chad Crouch

"Valladolid Funeral" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Illustrated Novel" by Chad Crouch

Transcript

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0:00.0	This week on Myths and Legends, it's the story of Kettle Trout.
0:05.0	And you'll see how you can guilt and manipulate your children into leaving home and beginning their new career as a dragonslayer and a Vikingider. The creature this week is a snake woman.
0:15.9	You definitely should not babysit for. This is a
0:24.0	myths and legends episode 347 fool me once.
0:37.0	This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins.
0:41.0	Others are tales that might be new to you,
0:43.4	but are definitely worth a listen.
0:45.0	We're back in the Viking legends,
0:46.5	with the standalone saga of Kettle Trout,
0:49.2	the Viking that was named after a fish.
0:51.8	Kind of. He was really just being bullied by his manipulative
0:55.2	dad, but we'll get to that.
0:57.5	Set in the early years of the Viking Age, so roughly around 800 AD. It's a time when the
1:02.4	Raiders of the North were striking out for riches and
1:04.9	land, well, most of them were. Not Kettle, though. He was content to sit at home all day and
1:11.2	watch Nature's TV. Ha ha, kettle! I regard you as the fool of Raffnista. I laugh at you a great deal and mock you
1:31.4	harshly. The bulky man in the other boat.
1:34.3	Borne laughed and mocked harshly. Kettle did kind of deserve it.
1:39.6	He wasn't a bad guy. He wasn't really anything. He didn't do anything. He was big and
1:45.5	handsome, the story assures us. But he spent all day lying on his side next to the fire.
1:50.9	One arm propping up his head, the other draped over his knees, poking at the
1:55.8	fire.
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