Hello and welcome to this Sleep Cove Premium episode.

Tonight I'm reading two Norse myths.

The first is called Loki's Punishment, and it's the tale of how Loki

finally got his comeuppance for all his evil deeds.

The second is called Sigurd's youth and tells the origin story of Sigurd, the Norse

legend and hero who was descended from Odin. There'll be some more Sigord stories coming up,

so this is an important story to listen to,

to realise his origins.

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One night, when all the women of the household, were sitting around her, spinning wool by the light of torches in the hall, the queen mother said to the one who wore the queenly garb,

Thou art good at rising in the morning,

how dost thou know in the dark hours

when it wears to dawn?

The one clad in the Queenie garb said,

When I was young,

I used to rise to milk the cows,

and I waken ever since at the same hour.

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