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Sound recording, story; a Norwegian folk tale told by Heidi Dahlsveen as part of the programme Rambling House, in the Ceilidh Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 8th July 2000.

A story told by Heidi Dahlsveen, about a wise husband and a stupid wife. The wife takes the cow and hen to market to sell, but muddles up their respective costs. The butcher who buys the cow decides to teach her a lesson, he gets her drunk and, while she is sleeping, covers her in tar and feathers. She returns home confused and pretending to be a bird. Her husband discovers her; discovers she has returned with no money, and leaves her, vowing that only if he finds three other women as crazy as she, will he return. As the husband walks he sees a women trying to lift a cow over a fence which has no gate; a women beating her husband over the head to try to get his shirt on which has no opening at the neck; and a women using a trough to trying to get the sun to her house which has no windows. In each case the man made openings for the women and they paid him. The husband returned home to find that his wife had planted salt on the land.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 15 minutes, 40 seconds

Performing in the Rambling House programme were Jocelyn Berube, Shonaleigh Cumbers, Heidi Dahlsveen and the musical group Chutzpah.

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.

storytelling:- storyteller: Heidi Dahlsveen
female / Norwegian / born 14.04.1966

origin:- Norway Scandinavia


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festival programme

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Heidi Dahlsveen

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associated:- musical group: Chutzpah


associated:- storyteller: Jocelyn Berube


associated:- storyteller: Shonaleigh Cumbers


programming:- Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose


administration:- administrator: St Donats Arts Centre


storytelling:- St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Ceilidh Tent
08 Jul 2000
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Rambling House


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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