The Healer of Bríendal
Éilís heals, provides and sets things in order — not as a hero, but as someone who stays. Between herbs, bread and weather, closeness grows out of small practical acts.
See all episodesThreads of Time tells continuing stories about ordinary life: work, care, repetition — and the quiet decisions that hold a place together. No thrills, no cliffhangers. Stories to stay with, not to click away from.
The series are set in different places and different centuries — ninth-century Ireland, France around 1500, a small Portuguese town in the present day. What connects them is not the period but the tone: told without hurry, close to the people in them.
Every episode stands on its own, runs about 30 to 45 minutes, and is read in a single calm narrating voice — made for evenings, for falling asleep, and for listening alongside something else. New episodes arrive weekly, and every series is free to listen to on YouTube.
Latest episode · 28 August 2026
The Healer of Bríendal · Episode 3
A child lies feverish on a straw pallet, the mother silent at the wall — a cozy historical sleep story from a healer’s cottage in Ireland, 900.
The series: Western Ireland · around 900. Éilís is a healer and a baker, a widow — the woman they fetch when it turns serious.
Go to the episode →Éilís heals, provides and sets things in order — not as a hero, but as someone who stays. Between herbs, bread and weather, closeness grows out of small practical acts.
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