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Nordic Mythology Podcast

Storytime Ep 01 - Hárbarðsljóð With Jonas Lorentzen

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

Nordic, Medieval, Comedy, Vikings, Mythology, Myth, Viking, Norse Mythology, Thor, Education, Odin, History, Norse, Historical

4.8356 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Story time episode, Jonas treats us to to a reading of Hárbarðsljóð. A story about Odin and Thor having an argument, and as you'd expect, things get weird!

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Transcript

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0:25.0

All right, so storage time is back, which is awesome. And so I thought we'd start with a very simple story and it is the story of a Harbard song or a a bar bolog, yod.

0:27.0

And it is basically a contest of insults between Odin and dressed as a disguise as Harbark, the fairyman, and

0:40.9

Thor who wants to cross the river.

0:45.0

And yeah, so the thing was that when I was sitting and looking at it,

0:51.0

a little bit of like getting into who's saying what and so on, I thought, since they're both somewhat in disguise, I mean at least

1:00.0

owed in this, completely in disguise.

1:06.8

Why not have them instead of, I mean, because they're gods, right?

1:08.0

So normally you would sort of have gods speak

1:11.7

in a sort of high, sort of some kind of accent that sounds like a bit partial to sort of

1:17.9

bit innovative in a way.

1:21.2

So your usual accent then? So just my accent, yeah. Just your speaking accent.

1:27.7

This is how I talk, basically. You know. No, but no.

1:34.0

How about having them speaking in a kind of,

1:40.0

a kind of sort of London gangster sort of almost like

1:44.3

piki blinders type thing if they're throwing insults at each other

1:49.2

but that's sort of fit and if there anyway in disguise, kind of, they wouldn't want to sound like what they are.

1:59.2

Yeah, so the... Is that just your favorite accent? Is that what you're trying to tell me?

2:03.7

No, I mean, you could also have one be Scottish, you know,

2:06.4

maybe whatever, you know, but like I'm just thinking it would be fun because that's running

2:10.4

it starts at each other and I think like the picky-blind kind of thing that was going on.

2:17.0

I think that would be cool.

2:18.0

Yeah, like a copny white boy type situation.

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