Quick disclaimer, we're in the Icelandic sagas, so there's some stronger than usual violence this week.

Please check out the post on myth podcast.com for more info.

This week on myths and legends, we're finishing up the stories of Bard and Guest from the Icelandic sagas,

and we'll see that all it takes to liven up your Christmas party is a little bloods

and how the best way to protect your valuables is 300 zombie guards. The creature this time is Sega, a bird who's

had quite enough of human nonsense. This is Myths and Legends tell stories from mythology and folklore.

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know with surprising origins

and others are tales that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen.

Last week on the podcast, Bard, a rich Icelander, lost his daughter and essentially became medieval Icelandic Batman, protecting those in need so nothing bad happened whenever they called upon him.

Turned out he actually just lost his daughter, as in she was drifting around for a while before coming to rest on Greenland, where, falling in love with a man named Skeggy, she went to Norway.

Bard rescued Helga, his daughter, with some light kidnapping, and brought her home and and as a way of taking his revenge on

Skeggy became familiar with Skeggy's daughter when he was traveling under the pseudonym

G-E-S-T-G-E-S-T-G-S-T-G-S-S-E-S-T-G-S-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-S-E-S-T, she found she was pregnant after Bard slash guest left and declared that she would name her son, G-E-S-G-S-E-G-E-S-G-S-G-G-G-G-G-G-G I've come to foster the boy, Helga said, looking on her half-brother, guest, for the first time.

Skaggy, the baby's grandfather grandfather was shaking.

It was the first time he had seen her since Norway.

There was so much he wanted to say, but it was too late.

Helga in her 20s now, and he in his, let's say 40s, at too much time had passed.

He had returned here to Iceland with his family and farm. She was now a roving mountain woman.

It would never work.

They'd always have the snowy troll-infested wastes

of northern Scandinavia.

For now, though, the mother and son,

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