Episode 13 - An Apple a Day Keeps the Jǫtnar at Bay

In this episode we dig into the kidnapping of Iðunn, a goddess whose magic apples keep the gods perpetually young. But this story is a lot less about the apples and a lot more about the goddesses. Join me as we focus in on both Iðunn and Skaði, a jǫtun who becomes a goddess by marriage, and the way Loki plays a prominent role in both of their stories.

Sources:

• “Apple and Apple Tree” by Joseph S. Hopkins, 2020, from mimisbrunnr.info
• “De Gamle Eddadigte,” transl. by Finnur Jónsson, 1932
• “Haustlǫng”, transl by Richard North, 2010
• “Lokrur, Lóðurr and Late Evidence” by Haukur Þorgeirsson 2011
• “The Poetic Edda: Volume II - Mythological Poems” by Ursula Dronke, 1997
• “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Carolyne Larrington, 2014
• “The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995

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Music:

Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/