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Tonight I will be reading a Norwegian fairy tale called The Widow Sun by S. Björnsson and Moe,

and I really hope I pronounced the names correctly. To be honest, I have never read this story before,

and so we'll discover together what this story is all about, and I hope you enjoy it.

And so, as always, my friend, settle in comfortably under the covers.

Take a full comfortable breath, and as you exhale, relax and let go.

Allow any tension to just melt away, sinking deeper and deeper down into the surface that you're

resting on. There is nothing else to do and nowhere else to be, so just lay back, relax, and enjoy the story.

Once upon a time, there was a poor or widow who had an only son.

She dragged on with the boy till he had been confirmed, and then she said she couldn't feed him any longer.

He must go out and earn his own bread. So the lad wandered out into the world, and when he

had walked a day or so, a strange man met him. Wither away, asked the man,

Oh, I'm going out into the world to try and get a place, said the lad.

Will you come and serve me, said the man? Oh, yes, just as soon as anyone else said the lad.

Well, you'll have a good place with me, said the man, for you'll only have to keep me company,

and do nothing at all else beside. So the lad stopped with him and lived on the fat of the land,

both in meat and drink, and had little or nothing to do, but he never saw a living soul in that man's

house. So one day the man said, Now, I'm going off for eight days, and that time you'll have to

spend here all alone. But you must not go into any one of these four rooms here.

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