About this episode
Vǫluspá - The Prophecy of the Seeress from the Poetic Edda is one of the most well known texts from Norse mythology. But how could this oral poem have been performed? Kersti Ståbi, Swedish folk singer and oral storyteller explored this question in her master's degree. Searching for a way to be a tale-singer in her own mythological tradition, she looked to living practices in Korea, India and Kyrgyzstan. In this episode she discusses this process with us, the interplay between copying and creating, and the paradox of trying to recreate something that's not possible to recreate. Kersti Ståbi http://kerstistabi.com / The Vǫluspá project http://kerstistabi.com/voluspa Vǫluspá Pansori first listener: Göran Hemberg Vǫluspá Pandvani first listener: Mikael Öberg Vǫluspá Pandvani freebass accordionist: Leif Ottosson Pandvani storytelling tradition clip: Ritu Verma with ragi (first listener) Uday Ram Gandharva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdPPuTaWag Manas storytelling tradition clip: Nazarkul Seidahmanov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibtAcZvcgk4 Pansori storytelling tradition clip: Jen Shyu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKg7_gqV-4 PODCAST LINKS https://www.intheborderlands.com/ https://www.patreon.com/IntheBorderlands https://www.facebook.com/intheborderlands https://www.instagram.com/intheborderlands_podcast/ EMAIL contact@intheborderlands.com TORGRIM'S LINKS https://www.brittle.one/ https://www.facebook.com/kloverknekten https://www.instagram.com/kloverknekten/ MIKAEL'S LINKS https://smarturl.it/inanna https://www.facebook.com/mikael.oberg.performance.storyteller https://www.instagram.com/mikaelobergstoryteller/ REFERENCES Vǫluspá https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völuspá Manas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Manas Pansori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansori Pandvani/Pandavani/Pandwani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandavani Bifrǫst festival https://www.bifrostfestival.com Fornyrðislag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliterative_verse#Fornyrðislag Hexameter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexameter Old Norse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse Walter Ong (Orality and Literacy - book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong The Singer of Tales (Book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singer_of_Tales Homeric Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Question