And the Heavens Burn (AtHB), A Norse Mythology-based fantasy series

Welcome to And the Heavens Burn (AtHB), a narrated fantasy series based on Norse mythology that’s written and read by me, Matt Bishop.

Kinsmen Die is the first book in my series. It retells and adapts some of the major events in Norse mythology through the lens of six main characters:

• Odin, the Alfather and his wife, Frigg, the Almother. Together, they rule over the Aesir city of Gladhseim.
• Vidar Odinsson, jarl of the district of Vithi.
• Hodr Odinsson, the blind son of Odin and Frigg.
• Loki, son of Farbauti and Laufey.
• Vafthrudnir, chief shaman of the Jotunn, the ancient enemies of the Aesir.

In Kinsmen Die, Frigg, Almother of Gladsheim, fears that her son Baldr, afflicted by a strange malady, is dying – which should be impossible since Frigg used ancient magics to make her son immune to  ...