Two of the great Norwegian tales. In Why the Sea Is Salt, a poor brother receives a hand-mill that grinds whatever its owner wishes for — until it falls into the wrong hands, and grinds salt at the bottom of the sea to this day. In Hacon Grizzlebeard, a shivering, nonsense-talking wanderer talks his way into a king's household — and nothing there is ever quite the same again.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:06 Why the Sea Is Salt
12:46 Hacon Grizzlebeard
From Popular Tales from the Norse (first edition, 1859), translated by George Webbe Dasent from the tales collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe — a fresh in-house modernised rendering.
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