24-Thor: Whosoever Holds this Hammer

Myths and Legends

• Episode: 24-Thor: Whosoever Holds this Hammer
• Website: Myths and Legends
• Feed URL: http://mythpodcast.libsyn.com/rss
• Duration: 00:28:40
• Published: 2016-02-24 05:59

Norse mythology, like all mythology, is strange. Thor's hammer is gone. It was stolen...or he just left it somewhere and forgot about it. To get it back, though, he's going to have to do something more difficult than fighting legions of giants. He's going to need to get married. And there's the origin of poetry, which contains way more men formed from spit than you'd expect for the origin of poetry. On the creature of the week, seriously, just stay out of the woods. It never ends well. Except when it does, and you find love and learn to put on a puppet show. Become a member! Find the show on iTunes Say hi on Twitter The Prose Edda - THE source for Norse Mythology Music: "Beeth" by Blue Dot Sessions "Direct to Video" by Chris Zabriskie "An Opus in Bb" by Blue Dot Sessions "Witch Laws" by Dlay "Hanami Matsuri" by Fabian Measures "It's Always Too Late to Start Over" by Chris Zabriskie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.