HVA DRIVER VI MED?
Norway’s tiny population has a vibrant storytelling tradition. This collection is retold by wandering storyteller, Georgiana Keable.
You will find beloved classics retold for our time alongside stories never printed before.
‘I summoned my courage, took a hammock and some maps and set out to walk in the stunning landscapes of Lofoten and beyond. For years I had wondered if it would still be possible to go out and collect stories. Raw stories that had been passed on by word of mouth since before people could read.
The journey proved a banquet of tales. The foremothers and forefathers of Norway spun them to help us navigate a living world but also for our enjoyment. May you relish them!’
Myths, legends and sagas from the bogs and snow-capped peaks of Norway, some lyrical, others outlandish, united by their connection to a harsh but splendid nature.
This book is published by the History Press and can be found on Bookshop.org, Waterstones and Amazon.
The author Georgiana Keable is a pioneer for the renaissance of storytelling and she likes adventures. She moved to a large deserted farm in Norway in 2020 and leads the work for biodiversity and storytelling.
She has taken thousands of teenagers up the Norwegian Pilgrims way and on botanical story adventures, prompting 12-year-olds to spontaneously hug trees and learn their names. In the remote Lofoten Islands, collecting stories by day and sleeping in a hammock, every stranger had a tale of connection with nature.
Georgiana taught storytelling at Oslo University college for 20 years, founded ‘Fortellerhuset’ (The Storytelling House), the Norwegian Storytelling Festival and Storytelling Radio, and received Oslo’s Artists Prize for outstanding contribution to cultural life.
Kartlegging av naturskog
Med biolog Tom Hofton på Opsal Gård i løpet av våren 2026
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Den tidligere storgården, Opsal Gard på Tangen, har en historie som går langt tilbake i tiden.
Men de siste 50 årene har gården stått mer eller mindre ubebodd.
Gården drives av frivillighet og er en del av prosjektet; Gård som utdanningsarena.
ÅRSMELDINGER
WWOOFING – would you like to volunteer here?
This is a new project on a very old farm. We are talking about a pioneering project! The focus is rewilding and biodiversity. While we grow our own food, the well-being of the forest and other wild and domestic creatures is super important.
The activities vary a lot! We are working with the horses, making fences and compost, planting trees and wooding for next winter, harvesting herbs berries and vegetables. We have made a forest garden with ‘fedges’, a mix of a hedge and a fence, and are organically restoring the house and barn.
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På Opsal Gard skal man kunne oppleve eng og skog, dyr og insektliv i en atmosfære med historisk preg. Fortelling og kurs flettes sammen med arbeid og opplevelse i felleskap på gården. Vi mennesker er en del av mangfoldet og vil bidra gjennom generativt jordbruk.
Med slåtteeng og mindre maskinelt inngrep bidrar plantene til mangfoldighet i omgivelsene og dermed til rikere insektliv som igjen bidrar til større fugleliv!
