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When was the last time you had space to feel?

With the National Trust, you might just find life standing still under towering trees.

Maybe you'll find connection among the stories of the past.

Or a moment to disconnect from it all on a mountainside.

Whatever you're feeling, wherever you are, with the National Trust, you can make space to feel. Hey, my name's Otis Gray, and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep and this is a midweek short story for you.

Well, I hope you're staying warm and sleeping well in February.

Hope you had a great Valentine's Day.

This week, we have a short story for you.

And it's a really lovely Nordic tale from an author that we've never heard before and it's a folk tale, which means it's a story that's been reiterated and passed down for centuries and interpreted in many, many different ways.

And this is one version of that that I think you're really going to love.

And before we get to the short story, I just want to profoundly thank all of our patrons on

patreon.com, which is a website where you can pledge a couple bucks for an ad-free version of

Sleepy. So if you are a supporter of Sleepy on Patreon, thank you so, so much. It really,

really means a lot to have you as a part of making this show. So thank you.

And if you don't know what I'm talking about,

there's a lot of people who listen to Sleepy who are directly a part of making it.

And they do that by going to Patreon.com slash Sleepy Radio and donating two bucks a month, one dollar a month, uh, five dollars a

month, which gets you access to our poetry feed, uh, with over 50 episodes you've never heard

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