Norse Creatures, Monsters, and More! | It's Norse, Of Course
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We’ve talked about the gods, but what about the rest of the figures from Norse mythology? We’re talking frost giants, giant wolves, world serpents, and so much more.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of violence, death, animal attacks, beauty standards, warfare, animal death, torture, and natural disasters.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider (who you can also follow on BlueSky). We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a |
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| 0:09.0 | . Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.1 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.1 | And I'm Julia. And I'm |
| 0:37.5 | Julia. And this is all about, Julia, it sounds like a miscellany of Norse mythology as we close |
| 0:45.0 | out or get toward the end of our, it's Norse, of course, miniseries. Yes. So this is a menagerie of |
| 0:53.7 | giants, creatures and monsters from Norse mythology. And as we discussed in our last, it's Norse of course, episode, while there are a lot of gods that are featured in Norse mythology that are part of the veneer and the Assyr, there are also several other gods and goddesses that exist in the folklore that |
| 1:11.7 | don't really fall into that category. And we've made kind of like passing mention of several of |
| 1:16.9 | these, and this also includes several of the gods that are also like half veneer or Asir and then half |
| 1:22.3 | Yotnard or giant. And some of these are among the most famous of the Norse figures. They are featured |
| 1:29.5 | heavily in some of the most important and famous stories of the poetic and the prose edas. |
| 1:35.4 | And I'm really excited to talk about them today, Amanda. I don't have a like Applebee's sampler |
| 1:42.9 | platter in mind or anything like that. But if you want to think of a way |
| 1:47.8 | to assign them each of these groups a interesting topic or idea or what have you, please let me |
| 1:54.5 | know because you are a genius in that field in my opinion. Oh, thank you. That's my wacky association to come up with. You bring the |
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