You can clearly see J.R.R. Tolkien's inspiration in this episode, what with that cursed ring finally making an appearance, a legendary sword reforged, and a selfish psychopath of a dragon sitting atop a pile of gold. Loki casually says something when he walks out the door which tears a family apart, and Odin is not fooling [...]
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The Saga of the Volsungs continues, with a princess held captive by the man who killed her father, and her brother roaming the forest waging a covert guerrilla war...or just robbing people for the fun of it? There are berserker werewolves, magic swords, and a battle of really stupid insults between kings. Also, you'll see if [...]
This is a transcript of this episode of the podcast. If you'd like to subscribe on iTunes, you can use this link. This week on the myths and legends podcast, we'll start the story of the volsungs, a legendary Norse family who finds that, somehow, a downward spiral of revenge leads inexorably toward destruction and violent [...]
Swords, dragons, werewolves, Vikings, betrayal, and revenge are all hallmarks of the thrilling, yet little known, Saga of the Volsungs, the story of an ill-fated medieval Nordic family. One of J.R.R. Tolkien's first Nordic reads, it's a tale of honor, love, loss, and vengeance, as well as the numerous benefits of just letting it go. Also, [...]
This is a transcript of a podcast episode. If reading isn't your thing, you can listen to it using the link above. Alternatively, you can go here to subscribe on iTunes. This week, I’ll finish telling the original story of Aladdin, which contains much more beheading, poisoning, and slaves than Disney’s version. Then in the mythological [...]
In the conclusion of the original Aladdin story, there's the meteoric rise of Aladdin, who is definitely not using magic to do any of this. Really. Will people just stop asking him that, already? I mean, so what if he made the most magnificent palace in the world overnight, and that it randomly disappeared. Nothing at all [...]
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The story of a poor man who finds a being of unlimited power, and not only uses it to put food on the table, but goes a little farther to take over the kingdom and become the richest man alive. It's the original story of Aladdin, but it's very different from the story you know. The jinni [...]
This is the transcript for a podcast episode. To listen to it instead, you can click here. To find the show on iTunes and subscribe there to get all future shows, click here. This week on the Myths and Legends Podcast, we'll finish up the story of Yvain, the Knight of the Roundtable, turned lord, turned [...]