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Thor's Hammer
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| Sound recording, story; Thor's Hammer from Norse mythology, told by Shonaleigh Cumbers, 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. | |
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| Introduction by Heidi Dahslveen to the programme and to the mythology, followed by story told by Shonaleigh Cumbers. The thunder god, Thor's, hammmer is stolen by a frost giant. Loki discovers the theif and returns with the message that the hammer will noly be returned if the frost giant can have the goddess Freya's hand in marriage. Freya refuses, so Thor dresses as a bride to trick the giants and retrieve the hammer. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 17 minutes, 4 seconds |
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| Performing in the Dahslveen and Cumbers programme were Heidi Dahlsveen and Shonaleigh Cumbers. | |
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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: Shonaleigh Cumbers female / British / Jewish |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Heidi Dahlsveen female / Norwegian / born 14.04.1966 |
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| origin:- | Norway Scandinavia |
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| festival programme | |
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| Heidi Dahslveen | |
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
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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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