421: Viking Legends: Famous
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
🔥All the Viking warriors' hearts burn with love for Nítíða🔥
😈 The Creatures: Henkie
The henkie is dancing with itself. When it's not watching you sleep, that is.
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🎵 Music Credits
"A Certain Lightness" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Blue Straggler" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Dolomite" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Obelisk Stands Silent" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Quarry Callis" by Blue Dot Sessions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week, on Myths and Legends, we'll meet the Maiden King who doesn't want to get married. |
| 0:05.5 | Well, she's not opposed to marrying if literally all the princes she ever came into contact |
| 0:11.3 | with would just stop trying to kidnap her or burn down her house. And we'll see that all you need |
| 0:17.0 | in order to take control of your life are magical seeing stones that also give you |
| 0:22.2 | superpowers. The creature this week is why you should never practice a musical instrument ever again, |
| 0:28.0 | because the monster that watches you sleep might make you play for them. |
| 0:37.1 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 421, famous. |
| 0:46.1 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:49.7 | Some are incredibly popular tales you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 0:54.8 | Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen. Today's story is an interesting |
| 1:00.1 | one. It's an Icelandic tale, but it was written much later than the usual ones we tell, around the |
| 1:05.5 | 1300s. Also, its protagonist is not Icelandic or even Scandinavian. As far as I can tell, she's French. |
| 1:13.4 | She's the maiden king of Paris, maiden king being a term from Scandinavian legend for a woman |
| 1:19.3 | who rules intentionally without a male counterpart, and thus is a sole, powerful ruler of her own lands. |
| 1:26.4 | France and the Vikings have a complicated and intertwined history, but this story really isn't |
| 1:31.6 | concerned with all that. |
| 1:33.3 | We're in the Viking Age, in that the Vikings are still raiding and the Byzantine Empire |
| 1:37.3 | is a strong force in the East, but those are really the only historical clues. |
| 1:42.3 | We'll jump in with Nitaita and her foster brother, Lies Kjother, sailing to a magical island. |
| 2:00.0 | So it's been a while since we've hung out. |
| 2:02.8 | You're like really smart, right? |
| 2:06.3 | The A. Skilther said to his foster sister, Natita. |
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