Dragon’s Breath

  • March 24, 2014
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Waiting time is over, The Dragons have come and gone. Or have they? They came in many forms: Fearsome, Gentle, Longing, Awesome Heavenly ones, Trickster types, Disguised as something else. Some tried to kiss the Dragon… I was one of them. It wasn’t easy. It was messy. I actually invited the Dragon to come home…

World Storytelling Day 2014

Discover Dragons

  • February 1, 2014
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Our poster for World Storytelling Days is ready!!!  Designed by Andrea Bayly, Fine Arts Major at the Alberta College of Art and Design majoring in Ceramics. When Andrea is not creating musical instruments out of clay and recording pop songs in many overlaid tracks  using her hand – made instruments, she is our go – to girl for posters.  How lucky can…

Dragons All Around: World Storytelling Days 2014

  • January 9, 2014
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I have been dreaming of Dragons for a good long while now as I prepare for World Storytelling Days 2014. To begin the journey, my TALES team and I have established a relationship with Vivian Morgan at the Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre and embarked on a journey to celebrate dragons in the Cultural Hall there….

A Taste of Grettir the Strong

  • May 29, 2013
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Mary and I spent an afternoon at Hexagon recording studio. Our friend Mark Ellestad helped us create this small recording that includes the mother’s song and a battle with the she-troll.

Karen Grettir's Saga

A Review That Melts My Heart

  • May 10, 2013
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Mary Hays and I travelled to Saskatoon on March 21 to take part in a weekend of World Storytelling Day Celebrations.  What a warm welcome we recieved there even though roads were closed and there was snow piled up to the roof tops in some places.  Storytellers are a resilient lot and all events went…

Food and Stories

How I love to cook, to share good food and feast my eyes on something carefully handmade; made with love. Today I was visiting with my cousin Dorothy, my friends Bernice and Donna, a whole gang of volunteers and Historic Site Staff at the Creamery and Fensala Hall in Markerville AB. The sun shone gloriously…

Karen telling Hallmund

Travels With Grettir

  • November 24, 2012
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Hail to the Speaker.  Hail to the one who listens!  May the one who hears these words prosper because of them!  Hail to the one who listens! Grettir Snake…    How did I get hooked up with you? Sometimes you were a brute, a brazen crazy man, a marauder, a bandit, an outlaw, cast out…

Grettir’s Saga: A Sorcery Sampler

  • August 23, 2012
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Mary Hays and I had a great rehearsal today to prepare for our performance at The Edmonton Storytelling Festival and in turn for the ProArts at Noon Series on March 13, 2013.  This will be a performance in celebration of World Storytelling Days. Preparing stories for performance is wrought with some joy and some difficulty.  There is the company and…

Post Saga Musings

  • May 7, 2012
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Hail to the Speaker!  Hail to the one who listens!  May the one who hears these words prosper because of them.  Hail to the one who listens! It is Monday and here we are again emerged from a day long/ weekend long performance of Grettir’s Saga.  We journeyed through time and space far far away…

Viking waters embroidery

The Saga Of Grettir The Strong

  • November 22, 2011
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Strength and Power are what we seek to possess are they not?  Without these, we often feel that we lack the resources necessary to face the world.  But they can also be a weakness.  Grettir Asmundarsson, descendant of a Norwegian King is a brute of a young man and like many of his age; lazy…