Loki and the Master Builder's Wall

Classical Stories · No. 43 — A wall rising far too fast, and a trickster's tangled fix.

• Classical Stories
• 38 min
• Ages 8–13
• 6 chapters

About this audiobook

A stranger offers to build the gods an unbreakable wall around Asgard before the first day of summer, asking in payment the sun, the moon, and the goddess Freyja. On Loki's advice, the gods agree — but only if he works alone and finishes in a single winter, terms they think impossible. What they didn't count on was Svadilfari, the builder's mighty stallion, which hauls colossal stones through the night, and the wall races toward completion with days to spare. The gods, furious, blame Loki, whose idea it was — and order him to stop it, by any means. Loki's solution is as clever, as ridiculous, and as costly to himself as only Loki's solutions ever are.

Why it's worth a listen

A mysterious builder offers to raise an impregnable wall around the gods' home in a single winter — and names a price so outrageous the gods only agree because they are sure he'll never finish. Then the wall starts going up terrifyingly fast, all thanks to one enormous horse, and Loki, whose idea this was, has to find a very strange way to slow it down. Norse myth at its funniest and most inventive.

A question to keep

When a clever plan goes wrong, who should clean up the mess — and how far will they go?

Based on the book by A tale from The Norse World, published by Emma's Library original retelling

Chapters

1. The Golden City and the Great Shadow
2. The Cleverest Mind in Asgard
3. The Great Horse Svadilfari
4. The Whispering of the Wind
5. A Chase in the Moonlight
6. A Question to Keep