90-Viking Legends: Mighty

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The land of giants. Jotunheim. The realm of the monstrous "other" from Norse myth. Thorstein grew up being told it was only a legend, and he probably thought as much...until he walked into it. This is the epic saga of Thorstein Mansion-Might, a legendary Viking who is bigger than doors. The creature this time is Dr. Big Bird. He's a big bird who is an ancient world doctor. That sounds impressive until you think that probably anyone alive today is qualified to be an ancient world doctor. --- Sponsors: War Dragons: Check out our awesome team, just search for "TheVolsungs". You can download War Dragons for free today at http://www.wardragons.com/legends (be sure to go from a phone or tablet device, though. Hello Fresh: We are seriously getting into Hello Fresh. You have to try it. It makes cooking easy, fun, and simple. It's by far my favorite meal service. Go to http://www.hellofresh.com/legends and use the code LEGENDS30 to get $30 off your first meal. --- Music: "Direct to Video" by Chris Zabriskie "Cases to Rest" by Blue Dot Sessions "Aim is True" by Podington Bear "Boardwalk" by Podington Bear "Chrysalis" by Podington Bear "Degradation" by Podington Bear "March" by Podington Bear "Miss You" by Podington Bear "Rubber Robot" by Podington Bear "Tarnish" by Podington Bear "These Times" by Blue Dot Sessions "Well Water" by Blue Dot Sessions

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0:00.0	This week, I'm Myths and Legend. It's the story of Thorstein Mansion Might.
0:05.0	A Viking legend. You'll see that the Vikings partied frighteningly hard.
0:09.7	Basically, if your parties don't involve drinking too much and then tossing around a 200-pound
0:14.2	seal-hegged coated in hot tar, don't even bother. The creature this time is Dr. Big Bird.
0:19.5	And you'll see that when it comes to Dr. Big Bird, sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease.
0:29.9	This is Myths and Legends. Episode 90. Mighty.
0:38.4	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly
0:42.4	popular stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories you might
0:46.4	have heard, but really should.
1:16.4	Just go to WarDragons.com.
1:47.3	The warstein's ship thudded to a halt. The mists had been thick, and even his men had become lost
2:07.6	to sea. That was rare for a Norseman. They had spotted land earlier that morning and traveled
2:13.1	down the fjord, only barely able to see the banks on either side. Now that they had reached
2:18.1	the end, their boats scraped to a hard stop on the pebbles of the beach, and they looked out
2:24.0	and all. The trees were big. They were just normal trees that had grown large, but the leaves
2:31.9	themselves were the sizes of the Viking shields. Yacht and I'm one man in the back of the boat whisper
2:38.2	what they all were thinking. That was impossible though. Yacht and I'm the land of the giants.
2:45.4	What's the thing out of Myth? Out of Legend. It was almost the year 1000 AD, and the Vikings
2:51.3	were barely Vikings at all anymore. They became Christians and abandoned their pillaging and plundering.
2:58.5	They moved on. Only a few, like Thorstein, traveled the waters. And even then navigating the politics
3:06.0	of the various Scandinavian kingdoms was more dangerous than any monster. There was a time in
3:10.6	the Norsemen with a scourge of the world, but that time had passed. They had become domesticated.
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