Description

This full moon October night, we're having a Halloween-appropriate visit with Hjörleifur Helgi Stefánsson: Icelander, author of Icelandic Folk Tales, fabulous traditional storyteller ... and Tom Muir's pet Viking.

No Picts were harmed during the making of this podcast.

A peedie warning: Not surprisingly, some of the conversation is a bit dark for the very sensitive, or bairns. See topics below and proceed informed.

Join us for a blether between two storytelling northmen, mildly spooky at times as is suitable for the Halloween season, where you'll hear about:

• Storytelling traditions old and new in Iceland
• "Destination Sagalands" (EU project) - friends made in the Nordic lands, and fun personal stories
• Finding a unique voice for stories and storytelling
• Hjörleifur's book, Icelandic Folk Tales
• Storytellers like being admired!
• Hjörleifur's family stories tradition
• Life in an Icelandic turf house
• Hjörleifur tells the story, The Merman Laughs (and eating rotten shark!)
• The dark details of making of a supernatural slave to steal neighbors' milk from the cow; the primal fear of the people living in turf houses
• How to make necropants
• Raising the dead
• About Icelandic rímur, and samplings of rímur, "sung with gusto" by a man with a golden voice
• Iceland and her trolls
• A troll folktale
• An Orkney ghost story from Tom
• A comparison of Orkney and Icelandic tales
• Announcing a new book-in-the-making with Hjorleifur and Orkneyology Press!
• Hidden People tales

Also mentioned:

Cape Clear festival website https://capeclearstorytelling.com/ and Rhonda's personal Cape Clear video https://youtu.be/mEInv4Miz3A?si=CpvVk6pbwc1-VXK_

Hjörleifur's Icelandic Folk Tales book link: https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/icelandic-folk-tales/

Heather Yule, storyteller: https://www.heatheryulepapertales.co.uk/my-story

Liz Weir: https://www.lizweir.org/

Terry Gunnell's Hidden People book: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1687155.Terry_Gunnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.