The Waking of Angantýr (fireside reading)

[@MrWTFcsc]

You should narrate an audiobook version Jackson.

[@BitStClair]

How cool would it be to smell the mountain air and hear such cool tales!

[@jennyhohmann4384]

Love the reading around the campfire!

[@pamelasskaar1422]

What an appropriate setting for the reading.

[@venm5887]

Doc, I think one of your best videos yet. This should be a series. Thank you very much.

[@Son-of-Tyr]

Oh man. My friend...you are the best scholar, professor, storyteller I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. I truly appreciate your accurate translations and objective interpretation of these great, ancient Norse tales 👏👍👏

[@N_Loco_Parenthesis]

Such force of will, those Vikings!

[@unicornbacon]

Oh, this is a fantastic idea! Please do many more of these!

[@BecciBuck]

I agree! Loved this!

[@krissyk72]

This is wonderful.. I could listen to you all day

[@andrewe1776]

Thank you.

[@KnottaDoctor]

I would need up so much reading this, let alone recording it all in one sitting

[@paulaunger3061]

A beautiful and hypnotic reading :D I've said it before, you have a gorgeous speaking voice :)

[@omikrondraconis5708]

Thank you for this! You have a wonderful reading voice :) Listening to you and the crackling fire greatly improved my day!

[@arij2467]

I love this so much.

[@LEGOWENTV]

Great stuff…thank you!

[@brutalisaxeworth3024]

FIRST! You the man, Jackson. This is awesome.

[@brodieknight772]

There's a lot of meaning in the line "don't touch the edges. There's poison on both"

[@curtismiller268]

Thank you for sharing, it's a great story and I really enjoyed listening.

[@LukeRanieri]

Outstanding setting! Great recitation.

[@danthefrst]

That was just great! Thanks

[@TheH4V0C]

Thank you Dr. Crawford! I have your other translations and will be sure to add this to my collection. 😀

[@osvaldoolmeda3773]

Great narration!

[@mattbaker7305]

Really good stuff, as always. Thanks for the reading and looking forward to getting your translation. From beautiful (well, not really) Sacramento, CA. I'm wishing you...all the best.

[@gypsydonovan]

More! 🙏

[@patriciamayhew6321]

Well done sir! A great scop tells a tale and prophecy.

[@KingAtlon]

What a fantastic story, and such a great delivery.

[@authormichellefranklin]

Fantastic! Cannot wait for the new book!

[@einarbolstad8150]

Great stuff.

[@alirezadehghan8505]

i love this

[@Mr.Buttons]

What is your most effective way to pronounce the words when there are accents influencing the words? And how do you get into teaching these languages?

[@shasamonaghan8498]

Thank you so much for this it really made my evening and I have not read the originals since collage Xx

[@TrondBørgeKrokli]

Thank you very much for this gem of a fireside story. I thoroughly enjoyed it (even though I was worried at first that I would not (I know, I worry too easily and too often).

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

I can't see why I told Tolkien liked these languages so much. I am not sure if Angantyr is finished, but that family of languages sounds just magnificent.

[@towercardtales4196]

ty:)

[@Metallicjoe]

This was awesome my drengr, more videos like this please :D

[@jsmithy643]

It's actually pronounced "drenga".

[@SwordTune]

Now that's a woman I can get behind. She appreciates a good sword. Even it is an evil one.

[@melissahdawn]

It must be a super power! I just turned off my music in order to listen. If I knew how to do that, I could make my kids put down their devices and eat when at the table! I guess I could starve them, but I'd rather have this super power.

[@melissahdawn]

I now appear like a "flake" or something, but hear me out! I had been trying to figure out this strange power in your voice, and it is like something Norse would've called magic, but I would not settle at that (naming it magic and dropping it). Then, I was watching a video about Nikola Tesla and it was about sound and vibration that started by talking about a story of Pythagoras walking by a blacksmith shop and being curious about the tones he heard. I was reminded of stories I had heard a long time ago about the relationship of Egyptian ancient structures and the burmuda triangle. The jist was that the Earth itself has a certain oscilating nature and it makes a sort of magnetic map and chambers of ancient pyramids were built directly over where such mapped out lines crossed one another. It made sense to me that if the inventor had such a good track record with inventions that were considered "magic" until adopted and made comonplace today, it makes sense that his invention that used sound and vibrations to aid the human body might also work (I'd be more likely to believe that than diet pill ads or trust a pill of any sort is going to help me when I do not even understand what it is doing). So, I am going to get to the bottom of this, but consider yourself noted as having a voice that has magical powers. I am not alone in thinking that, either.

[@dafyddthomas6897]

Tyrfing fits the Elder Wand from Harry Potter: a weapon so mighty that everyone wants to kill you to get it, next everyone wants to kill the guy that kills you. Good news! Your death will be avenged!

[@000Mazno000]

When is it dropping? I can't wait

[@000Mazno000]

Nevermind, I just preordered it :D

[@monkeyswithshoes308]

It's the middle of the day but I'm going back to sleep now :)

[@ossian1977]

Good old American wilderness and Norse storytelling. I think that Neil Gaiman should have interviewed you before writing American Gods!

[@northmanjourneys]

More of this

[@Tuntee]

A.m.a.z.i.n.g. but i need you to read the book to me. Will there be an audio version ? Correct Answer: YES

[@SpookiBunny]

oh hell yeaaaa

[@Tina06019]

Well, she sounds like a piece of work. As her father says, Hervor is a courageous fool. Let the dead sleep. Thank you for a good tale well told.

[@EldhjaertaZ]

A brave fool indeed

[@mariaevergreen6421]

❤️🙏🌈

[@az4037]

Agni is fire in Hindi

[@gg2fan]

What exactly is a grave fire?

[@stormstaunch6692]

Why do you say “Jarl” rather than brooking/using the English word “Earl”? I don’t see the sake in that.

[@MrMynte]

Even though they mean the same thing I would say it it is most appropriate to use the native word. Just like tsar/kaiser vs emperor mean the same thing. Fun fact: Kaiser and tsar both come from the word Caesar