• A Halloween Visit with Hjörleifur Helgi Stefánsson

  • Oct 17 2024
  • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
  • Podcast

A Halloween Visit with Hjörleifur Helgi Stefánsson

  • Summary

  • 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


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