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Tonight I'll be reading from the beginning of a book called Viking Tales, written in

1992 by Jenny Hall. This book is focused around the story of Harold Farhair,

first king of Norway around the year 900,

but also draws upon sagas and other sources to produce a view of Viking life.

Let's get cozy.

close your eyes.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your med. Now, take a few deep breaths. Part 1, the baby. King Half Dan. The Baby.

King Half Dan lived in Norway long ago.

One morning, his Queen said to him,

I had a strange dream last night. I thought that I stood in the grass before my bower.

I pulled a thorn from my dress. As I held it in my fingers it grew into a tall tree.

The trunk was thick and red as blood, but the lower limbs were fair and green, and the highest

ones were white. I thought that the branches of this great tree spread so far that they covered

all Norway and even more. A strange dream, said way and

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