Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology, credited to Mary H. Foster, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology by Mary H. Foster. (Translated by Mabel H. Cummings.) Read in English by Julie Yu Asgard Stories - Tales from Norse Mythology. To all our Children who have loved the hearing of these Asgard Stories. This little volume is the outcome of several years experience in telling to classes of children the classic myths, both southern and northern. "A broad simplicity, so very different from the light gracefulness of the old Greek paganism, distinguishes this Norse system. It is thought, the genuine thought of deep, rude, earnest minds, fairly opened to the things about them, - a face-to-face and heart-to-heart inspection of things, - the first characteristic of all good thought in all times." wrote Carlyle. Anderson, the author of “Norse Mythology,” wrote: “In the Norse mythology the centralizing idea is its peculiar feature; in it lies its strength and beauty. The one myth and the one divinity is inextricably in communion with the other; and thus also the idea of unity, centralization, is a prominent feature and one of the chief characteristics of the Teutonic nations."

Recording facts

• Recording title: Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology
• Author credits: Mary H. Foster
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 2:34:07

Catalogue topics

• thor
• odin
• asgard
• loki

Track guide

1. 01 - The Story of the Beginning — 10:54
2. 02 - Odin’s Reward — 9:00
3. 03 - Tyr and the Wolf — 14:01
4. 04 - Freyja's Necklace — 10:00
5. 05 - The Hammer of Thor — 7:28
6. 06 - Thor's Wonderful Journey — 16:04
7. 07 - How Thor Lost His Hammer — 10:55
8. 08 - A Gift from Frigga — 6:44
9. 09 - The Stealing of Iduna — 22:14
10. 10 - Skadi — 6:32
11. 11 - Baldur — 12:02
12. 12 - Aegir's Feast — 14:31
13. 13 - The Punishment of Loki — 6:24
14. 14 - The Twilight of the Gods — 7:18

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