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a Norse Mythology story

Sound recording, story; a section of myth from Norse mythology, told by Heidi Dahslveen, as part of the programme Dahslveen and Cumbers, in the Blue Garden at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 9th July 2000.

Story told by Heidi Dahlsveen. A story about Odin and his son Balder who was skilled as a peace-maker . One night Balder dreams of his own death. Frigg, his mother, makes all the gods, all the humans and all the elements of the world promise that they will not hurt Balder, and Balder becomes immune to the danger of death. Loki becomes jealous. He finds out from Frigg that the only plant she did not make promise not to hurt Balder was the mistletoe. Loki uses a blind god to kill Balder with an arrow entwined with mistletoe.

audience:- adult
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 28 minutes, 21 seconds

Performing in the Dahslveen and Cumbers programme were Heidi Dahlsveen and Shonaleigh Cumbers.

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 Dahslveen

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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: Blue Garden
09 Jul 2000
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Dahslveen and Cumbers


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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