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Freya's Necklace
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| a Scandinavian Mythology story; Norse Mythology story | |
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| Sound recording, story; Freya's Necklace, a version of a birth tale and myth, from Scandinavian and Norse mythology, told by Ben Haggarty accompanied by Sained Jones, in the Big Top at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 8th July 2000. | |
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| Introduction by Ben Haggarty to the story and an apology for the content of the story he is about to tell, followed by story told by Ben Haggarty with musical accompaniment by Sianed Jones. The story is a birth tale. The most beautiful goddess, Freya, is wanted as a wife by the one eyed god Grim, but he is married. Loki, Grim's blood brother follows Freya one day. Freya visits the world below and a cave where four dwarves are making the most beautiful jewels. They show Freya a necklace made from red gold. The dwarves name their price for the necklace - that she spend the night with all four of them. This she does, with Loki watching, disguised as a spider. Freya returns home. Loki tells Grim what he has seen. Loki steels the necklace from Freya and takes it to Grim. In return for returning the necklace he asks Freya to cause chaos, adultery and war in the world below. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 39 minutes, 43 seconds |
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| Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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musician; singer; composer: Sianed Jones female / Welsh / British |
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Scandinavia
Norse |
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| Ben Haggarty and Sianed Jones in performance | |
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| festival programme | |
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| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
| storytelling:- |
St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Big Top
08 Jul 2000 festival: Beyond the Border Festival |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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