Episode 34: The Cruel Mother with Danica Boyce of Fair Folk Podcast

12/17/19 • 62 min

In this episode I talk to Danica Boyce, the host of Fair Folk, an outstanding folklore podcast.
Clarification from Danica: The version of the Cruel Mother that she sings is by Shirley Collins, an English singer; the song is English/Scottish but the lines about the afterlives are from The Maid and the Palmer, a ballad collected from an Irish traveller.
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Episode 33: Taming the Kelpie

This week's story is from Scotland. It's a tale of the kelpie, one of our most famous and fascinating otherworld creatures. I heard it from Ian Stephen, a storyteller from the Isle of Lewis, and have been telling it a lot in performance recently.
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Episode 35: Sources: Norse Mythology with Noah Tetzner of The History of Vikings Podcast

In this episode I interview Noah Tetzner, the host of The History of Vikings Podcast. Noah gives an overview of the Norse cosmology and then we discuss the source texts and different aspects of the subject in more depth.
Sources episodes are a new feature for House of Legends, in which we delve deeper into mythology and folklore as opposed to hearing stories. Let me know if you'd like to hear more of these.
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And worldwide.
Music by Kate Young:
www.kateyoungmusic.com

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