Frey and his Wife: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Frey and his Wife, credited to Maurice Henry Hewlett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Frey and his Wife by Maurice Henry Hewlett. Read in English by Kevin Green Frey and his Wife is a Nordic Saga, but written in a saga style by a 20th Century Englishman. It tells the tale of Gunnar, a Norwegian wrongly accused of murder who flees across the mountains to the pagan forests of Sweden. There he meets 'Frey' a Norse god, and a young woman who has become his wife. Animosity develops between Frey and Gunnar over the local ritual of human sacrifice which leads to an interesting outcome. The tale develops themes of religion, idolatory, and love, set in the time when Christianity was starting to displace pagan religion in Scandinavia. (Kevin Green)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Frey and his Wife
• Author credits: Maurice Henry Hewlett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 2:53:54

Catalogue topics

• Norway
• sweden
• Iceland
• saga
• norse

Track guide

1. 01 - Who and what was Ogmund Ravensson and why called Ogmund Dint — 14:56
2. 02 - How Ogmund Dint did nothing, and presently sailed home to Thwartwater, and what Battle-Glum thought about it all — 10:08
3. 03 - Of King Olaf Trygvasson, and of Sigurd Helming and Gunnar, his brother — 11:20
4. 04 - Ogmund Dint comes again to Norway, and meets Gunnar on the Hard of Drontheim — 8:02
5. 05 - Ogmund Dint satisfies himself, and sails Home — 4:55
6. 06 - The Hue-and-Cry for Halward Neck — 7:53
7. 07 - Gunnar crosses the Mountains — 6:35
8. 08 - Gunnar in the Forest hears tell of Frey and his Wonders — 13:30
9. 09 - Gunnar meets with Frey. Concerning Frey's Wife — 9:49
10. 10 - Talk between Gunnar and Sigrid — 12:05
11. 11 - Gunnar turns Frey about against Frey's Will — 9:58
12. 12 - The Winter Feasts — 8:45
13. 13 - Frey makes Ready to go his Rounds — 11:45
14. 14 - Frey Starts on his Rounds — 4:30
15. 15 - The Snowstorm — 5:32
16. 16 - Marriage of Sigrid — 2:56
17. 17 - Morrow of the Storm — 10:11
18. 18 - News of Frey reaches Norway — 4:20
19. 19 - Sigurd in Sweden. The Battle of the Ford — 9:54
20. 20 - The End of the Tale — 6:50

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