S03 Episode 6: Summer Wilds

Mythos Podcast by Nicole Schmidt

Aug 31, 2019Society & Culture

From Norway’s verdant mountain pastures where lonely dairymaids tend the seter, or summer farm, to the shadowed forests of Sweden and Denmark, we will encounter the strange beings of the summer wilds. This episode will f...

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