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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.
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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.
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 15 minutes, 40 seconds
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Performing in the Rambling House programme were Jocelyn Berube,
Shonaleigh Cumbers, Heidi Dahlsveen and the musical group
Chutzpah.
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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:-
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storyteller: Heidi Dahlsveen
female / Norwegian / born 14.04.1966
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origin:-
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Norway
Scandinavia
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festival programme
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Heidi Dahlsveen
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associated:-
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musical group: Chutzpah
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associated:-
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storyteller: Jocelyn Berube
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associated:-
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storyteller: Shonaleigh Cumbers
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programming:-
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
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administration:-
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
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storytelling:-
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Ceilidh Tent
08 Jul 2000
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Rambling House
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gift from:-
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St Donats Arts Centre
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007