COA01 - The Discovery of Iceland
Viking Age Podcast
Viking Age Podcast
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Gilvy was king over the land, which many years later would become known as Sweden. |
| 0:12.0 | One day he was visited by a traveler, a woman who called herself Gevian. |
| 0:18.5 | Gevian was a member of the Asier clan, a group of powerful rulers who had recently immigrated to Sweden |
| 0:29.1 | from the distant city of Troy in Asia. |
| 0:39.6 | Gilvie was intriguing. City of Troy in Asia. Gilvy was intrigued by Gevian. In an exchange for her company, he offered her as much land as she could plow, with the aid of just four oxen in a single day. |
| 0:47.0 | Gevian agreed to these terms, and after spending some time with Gilvy she packed up her things and |
| 0:56.2 | set off for Jotenhaim, the home of the Giants from which she soon returned with four massive oxen. She yoked these beasts |
| 1:09.7 | firmly to the plow and goaded them on. |
| 1:13.0 | As they pulled, the plow cut into the land so deep and so wide |
| 1:20.0 | that a large chunk of land came loose from the rest of Sweden. |
| 1:25.0 | Not content with only this, the oxen then proceeded to drag this land into the sea, where Gevian fastened it down and named it Zeland. |
| 1:41.1 | Gilvy, who was himself well-schooled and magical knowledge, had never seen anything of this sort |
| 1:48.1 | before, and he could hardly believe what Gevian had just done. In fact, he was so impressed by her feet that |
| 1:58.0 | he decided then and there that he must find out where exactly she had acquired such immense skill in magic. |
| 2:07.0 | And so, after some preparation, he set off alone to visit Asgard the great fortress of the Asier. He also wished to keep |
| 2:19.8 | his presence among the Asier concealed, and so Gilvy disguised himself as an old man and adopted |
| 2:28.1 | the name Ganglary for the purposes of this journey. |
| 2:34.0 | The Assier, of course, were wise to such tricks, |
| 2:38.0 | and through their prophetic powers, |
| 2:41.0 | they saw the king coming ages before he actually approached their home. |
| 2:47.4 | They used this time to conjure visual illusions with which they could trick the Wiley King and prevent him from stealing their |
| 2:56.4 | magics. |
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