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Fall asleep to the complete story of Loki, the trickster of the Norse gods, a Norse mythology sleep story told slowly for deep rest. A long, calm bedtime story for grown ups, narrated in a quiet voice through every twist of his tale, from his cunning tricks in the golden halls of Asgard to the long quiet at the end of all his roads.
Not only the mischief, but the full arc, beginning with a gentle welcome beneath the northern night and the first crossing of the trembling rainbow bridge into Asgard, carrying through Loki's place among the gods, the theft of Sif's golden hair and the wager in the deep forge of the dwarves where the great treasures were made, the wall that a hidden stranger raised too fast, and the strange night in the woods from which the eight-legged foal Sleipnir was born. The story moves onward through Loki's stranger children and the binding of the great wolf, the veiled wedding in the hall of the giants and the hammer returned, the apples of youth and the falcon's flight, and at last through the sorrow at the heart of the tale, the dark dreams of the bright god, the small blind throw, and the long quiet that followed.
It moves gently through the meanings gathered around his name: the double edge of cleverness, the trouble and the gifts that both come of it, the thin line between mischief and harm, the price of a careless word, and the strange mercy of a story told softly in the dark. Names and symbols woven through the hours: Bifrost and Asgard, the golden hair of Sif, the spear Gungnir and the ship that folds like cloth, the ring Draupnir, Sleipnir the eight-legged, Fenrir the wolf and the world-serpent, the wedding at the giants' hall, the golden apples, and the low candle at the last. A complete Norse mythology bedtime story for adults, told in the ancient voice for sleep.