{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65a28c429ba8e30016dff20e/690a7d3268ccec9b8eb2f2a7?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Norse Queen of Death Comes to Orkney: The Shapeshifter's Daughter with Sally Magnusson","description":"<p><strong>We have a visit on this full November frost moon from BBC presenter and author Sally Magnusson, who gives us a few readings from her writings, including her newest book <em>The Shapeshifter's Daughter.</em> Join Tom Muir and Sally Magnusson for a fascinating blether on the eve of the Stromness launch of her latest novel, set in Orkney. \"Before she was a hideous monster, the Queen of the Underworld was simply Hel ...\" </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>If you're inspired to do so, you can buy us a dram on Ko-fi, with our hearty thanks: https://ko-fi.com/orkneyology</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Tonight, Tom and Sally have a talk about these things and much more:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Sally's father, the \"proudest Icelander\"- Magnus Magnusson - journalist, translator of sagas, writer and television presenter</strong></li><li><strong>About Sally's journalism work and being a presenter on Scottish TV since the 1980s</strong></li><li><strong>Icelandic sagas and the Icelandic landscape</strong></li><li><strong>Sagas as \"extremely good historical fiction\"</strong></li><li><strong>Are small communities isolated, or are big cities isolated - who is more remote?</strong></li><li><strong>The importance of knowing your kin</strong></li><li><strong>The literature of Iceland: was it the adition of Celtic dna that brought it to flower?</strong></li><li><strong>The tendency to romanticize the Viking era</strong></li><li><strong>Viking women - strong and scary!</strong></li><li><strong>The Flying Scotsman: The Eric Liddell Story - Sally's first biography</strong></li><li><strong>Dreaming of Iceland - a personal account of the geography, history and legends of Iceland, written by Sally and her father</strong></li><li><strong>Other books of fiction, non-fiction and children's books</strong></li><li><strong>Marketing books and making choices about how to spend one's creative time</strong></li><li><strong>Writing as a way to work out what we think about things</strong></li><li><strong>Sally's mother's dementia</strong></li><li><strong>Sally Magnusson's charity, <em>Playlist for Life - </em>music as positive therapy for dementia</strong></li><li><strong>About inhabiting the characters you're creating</strong></li><li><strong>Have we lost the more fleshed-out female characters from old Norse mythology?</strong></li><li><strong>\"When everything is lost to us, the stories in our heads allow us to continue.\"</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Sally Magnusson's website: https://sallymagnusson.com/about/ </strong></p><p><strong>Playlist for Life: https://www.playlistforlife.org.uk/</strong></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Tom Muir and Rhonda Muir"}