Ep 61 - Hans Christmas Andersen: The Snow Queen Pt 1

Journey with us this winter to the icy wilds of Copenhagen… ooooh mystical, Copenhagen - where Gerda must rescue her sister the Ice Queen with the frozen heart, no wait, that’s Frozen. Where Gerda must save the land from the Ice Queen who has taken her brother Edmund and threatens Narnia, wait no, that’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Ok now, journey with us and Gerda into Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen to rescue her beloved Kai from the frozen heart’s corruption and hear the story that inspired them all.

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Ep 33 - Ride of the Valkyries

Grab your mead, don your horned helm, we are riding to victory with the Valkyries! This week we're talking about the winged women of Odin and roll call a few notable Norse, including a Norn.

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Ep 16 - A Clause By Any Other Name Pt. 1

Hide yo presents, hide yo kids, hide for your life because it's Krampus Day! He is coming for you, Barbara! And who's that behind him? Look there, chiiilllldren! Here comes La Befana riding in on her broom! Better leave out some sausage, broccoli, and wine for the Italian Christmas Witch!

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Episode 15 - All I Want for Saturnalia is Yule

Yule want to listen to this episode and our whole Holiday party pack of episodes coming to you in the month of December! It's Yuletide and Saturnalia all in one this week. We hope you are ready to lose your togas and don your pileus caps! Gather your wine and your wassail, take a seat and light the log and party for at least a week to celebrate Saturn and the Golden Age of Man in our favorite Roman Holiday, Saturnalia!

We're not limiting this celebration just to Classical Rome. No sir! It's not a Yuletide party until you've ridden your Sleipnir with Odin all the way up and down the heims for a raucous season of the hunt.

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Ep 14 - Baldur's Fate

Jealousy, betrayal, shapeshifting old women, and death! this week we've got it all when a death in the family sets off a chain reaction for doomsday in a "you're probably wondering how I got here" moment."

This week we wrap up Norse November thinking about all the Ragnarok and Vikings in our lives. Remember this Thanksgiving that even though you may have to spend it with your distant relatives, at least you don't have an uncle Loki plotting to kill you and set off the apocalypse.

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Ep 13 - Ragnarok and Roll with Brian James, author of Mjolnir

This is big! This is the end of the world as Snorri Sturluson knows it! Just in time for Marvel's new Thor Ragnorak movie, we have our own Ragnarok world-changing event with our first guest ever, Brian James, author of the new novel Mjolnir and all-around great guy and knower of Norse things.

It's the end of the line for Odin, Thor, Loki, and the rest of Asgard and all the gards as we know them! You'll hear the real deets on what happens when Surtr and the gang say hi for one last ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny!

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Ep 10 - The Monster Mashup Part 2 - Werewolf, Therewolf

It's a wolf, it's a man- it's a WOLFMAN! Werewolves? Therewolves, here in the second part of our four-part Monster Mashup! Coming in from the first annals of nightmares and storytelling, get ready to learn something, fool.

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Ep 8 - Uthgerda-Loki the Unbroken

It all started on Thor's day. Thor faces his greatest challenge: a battle of wits. Listen to how Thor's greatest humiliation came in the form of failing to lift a cat, being beaten by an old grandma giant, and perhaps worst of all, failing to finish his mead.

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Ep 7 - Livin La Vida Loki

Loki is anything but low key in these tales of offerings and offspring. You want fantastical dwarven-crafted gifts for the Gods and Goddesses? Loki's got em. You want apocalyptic nightmare monsters that will destroy everything in Ragnarok? Loki's got em. You want to know the down low on Loki? We've got you.

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Ep 6 - The One Where Thor Gets Married

Somebody lost a hammer and found a husband, whoop whoop. It’s up to Loki and Thor to convince the salacious Thrym that Freyja is indeed ready to marry him, so single Girl Thor and his bestie Loki get dolled up for a hot night in Jotenheim. But will Thor get cold feet in the land of Frost Giants?

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