Fall asleep to the complete story of Odin, the Allfather 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 the whole of his tale, from the making of the nine realms to the long snow that settles over the world at the end of the day.
Not only the king in the high hall, but the wanderer on the road: the grey traveller in the wide-brimmed hat who walked the worlds in search of wisdom, and gave away a great deal to learn what he wished to know. The story moves gently from the world tree Yggdrasil and the first dawn of things, through the raising of Asgard's wall and the birth of the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, the wolves and ravens at Odin's side and the treasures forged in the deep, the kind old wanderer who rewarded those who welcomed a stranger, the descent to Mímir's well where he gave his eye for a drink of wisdom, the winning of the mead of poetry in the mountain of the giants, the nine long nights upon the tree where the runes rose to him, the quiet ride to the still country and the dream of the bright god, and the three Norns weaving the long threads of fate beside their well, until at last the wanderer comes home to the golden hall and the snow falls soft over all the worlds.
It moves gently through the meanings gathered around his name: that wisdom is not seized in a hurry but received in stillness, that the deepest things come only to those patient enough to go down into the dark and quiet to find them, and that every ending holds a beginning folded quietly inside it, the way every long night holds the morning. Names and symbols woven through the hours: Yggdrasil and Asgard, the spear Gungnir and the ring Draupnir, Sleipnir the eight-legged, the ravens Thought and Memory, Mímir's well and the given eye, the mead of poetry, the runes of the tree, the Norns and the well of fate, Valhalla and the low candle at the last. A complete Norse mythology bedtime story for adults, told in the ancient voice for sleep.