Aug 12, 2026 · 24 min · 8 segments
Adam Gidwitz shares an early version of a brand-new, Grimm-inspired tale and invites listeners to help shape it. “Snorri and the Norn” follows Snorri, a very unlucky boy who goes on a journey to…
Adam GidwitzHost
We haven't done any Norse stories yet, Scandinavian mythology involving gods like Odin, the All-Father, king of the gods, or Thor with his magic hammer, or Loki with his mischief-making.
But I've recently been reading more of these stories, uh, and I have a friend whose name is Jonah Dragon.
Yeah, that's his real name, Jonah Dragon, and he's gonna come on and help me tell another Norse fairy tale.
This story is inspired by Norse mythology, Norse folklore, though it's not specifically a tale from that tradition.
I've taken details from that tradition and, uh, woven them together into a brand-new story.
The tale is inspired by Norse mythology, which, like most mythologies, can be super weird and strange.
You might have read some Norse mythology in Rick Riordan's books, The Magnus Chase series, which I really like.
The author who wrote down most of the Norse tales lived over 1,000 years ago, and his name was Snorri Sturluson.
Snorri wrote down the Norse myths in the 1200s, about 800 years ago, 600 years before the Brothers Grimm.
So since this tale is drawn from the work of Snorri Sturluson, when I was thinking, "What should the name of the main character be?" I thought, "Let's honor the guy who wrote the stories down, Snorri." Also, it's just a great name, right? Okay, so this is Snorri and the Norn.
We haven't done any Norse stories yet, Scandinavian mythology involving gods like Odin, the All-Father, king of the gods, or Thor with his magic hammer, or Loki with his mischief-making.
But I've recently been reading more of these stories, uh, and I have a friend whose name is Jonah Dragon.
Yeah, that's his real name, Jonah Dragon, and he's gonna come on and help me tell another Norse fairy tale.
This story is inspired by Norse mythology, Norse folklore, though it's not specifically a tale from that tradition.
I've taken details from that tradition and, uh, woven them together into a brand-new story.
The tale is inspired by Norse mythology, which, like most mythologies, can be super weird and strange.
You might have read some Norse mythology in Rick Riordan's books, The Magnus Chase series, which I really like.
The author who wrote down most of the Norse tales lived over 1,000 years ago, and his name was Snorri Sturluson.
Snorri wrote down the Norse myths in the 1200s, about 800 years ago, 600 years before the Brothers Grimm.
So since this tale is drawn from the work of Snorri Sturluson, when I was thinking, "What should the name of the main character be?" I thought, "Let's honor the guy who wrote the stories down, Snorri." Also, it's just a great name, right? Okay, so this is Snorri and the Norn.
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