The Narrator of the first Magnus Chase book is... I don't know the words. I don't like being rude but the cadence of his speech and the way he pronounces things as a whole combine to make it sound like he's trying to narrate someone with a severe mental handicap. He notably did not reprise his role as narrator for the second or third books. I don't think the character is supposed to come off like a young Asgardian Forest Gump. That was all the odd way the narrator read the story.