Tonight's story comes from the Nordic people. A story written down on the small island of Iceland.

Almost everything we know about Norse mythology comes to us through two books that were written down in medieval Iceland.

And inside those books is a story about what happens when, for a brief moment in time, the Sun goes dark.

A total solar eclipse.

So let's go back to the time of the people we call Vikings. Places of deep cold and freezing water.

Let's go back to learn what they thought was happening when the Sun goes missing.

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