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3 unusual facts about Discover Odin


Discover Odin

The final track is a recording of a poem read by its author Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931).

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In the first track, "The 18 Charms of Odin", Cope provides musical accompaniment to the text of the epic Norse poem Hávamál, in Kevin Crossley-Holland's version, as published in The Norse Myths.

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Later tracks mix musical and spoken material on the subject of the Odin stone of Orkney, the neolithic hill of Silbury and the World Ash Tree, Yggdrasil.



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