434: Norse Mythology: The Old Man and the Stick
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
🐐 Who knew packing so many epic Norse heroes into a single house could have such disastrous consequences?
Not Odin, that's for sure. There's trouble brewing in Valhalla, and there's only one man who knows how to solve it: Skíði, the smartest famous man of our world, Midgard. But, has the world of Midgard changed too much since Odin last looked in on it?
😈 The Creature: Lusca
If you see octopus hands feeling around your boat, you better not toss that empty plastic bottle into the ocean. Probably don't do that anyway, actually. Littering is gross.
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| 0:00.0 | This week, on Myths and Legends, we're back in Norse Myth with the story of Skeethy. |
| 0:05.6 | We'll see what happens when the smartest, famous guy in the world gets called to Valhalla |
| 0:09.7 | to fix a problem for Odin, and that, if you're riding with Thor on his goat chariot, |
| 0:15.7 | you probably shouldn't eat weak old fish right before the trip. |
| 0:19.4 | The creature this time is yet another reason not to litter. |
| 0:23.1 | You might get pulled under the water by an octopus shark with hands. |
| 0:32.6 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 434, The Old Man and the Stick. |
| 0:42.5 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly |
| 0:47.2 | popular tales you might think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories that |
| 0:51.7 | might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen. |
| 0:54.9 | At long last, we are back in Norsemyth. We burned through those stories very early on in the podcast, |
| 1:00.8 | with Ragnarok being episode 80. We always have the sagas, of course, but it is nice to be back |
| 1:06.1 | in the world of Thor, Odin, Loki, Freya, Heimdahl, and others. What we call North Smith was the predominant religion |
| 1:12.4 | of the Nordic countries, in Northern Europe up until the 9th or 10th century, and we only have a few |
| 1:17.6 | sources for it. The most comprehensive written by a Christian in the 13th century. Today's work was |
| 1:23.4 | written in the 15th or 16th century, but we'll get to all that in the wrap-up. |
| 1:32.8 | Today, we take a trip along the world tree to Asgard to solve a problem that takes a famous smart man, or a smart famous man. What's the difference? Well, you'll see. But before we get to |
| 1:39.2 | Skiy, our hero, we'll check in with Odin, who is still out looking for recruits to fight for him |
| 1:45.4 | at the end of the world. |
| 1:58.7 | Odin was flying home in the form of an eagle. Having gone to go claim the last of the |
| 2:03.5 | Volsungs, he kind of forgot there were still some of those guys milling around out there. Hamdier and Sorrelly |
| 2:09.7 | were sons of the queen, Guthran, who worked them up to kill their half-sister's murderer. She also |
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