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 she says.
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 preordered on Bookshop.org, release day is 12th mai 2026 or ordered on Waterstones and Amazon.
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.
Her prizewinning book ‘The Natural Storyteller’ was published by Hawthorn Press, who then commissioned ‘Fairytales, Families and Forests’ published in 2023. Norwegian Folktales published by The History Press is her third book.
www.georgiana.net, www.fortellerhuset.no www.fortellerfestivalen.no
