Ghosts of the North: The Haunted Folklore of Norway & Sápmi
From Draugr to Stallo: Spirits at the Edge of the Arctic Night.
Step into the spectral North, where the boundaries between the living and the dead are thin as ice. In this eerie, richly illustrated lecture, we lead you into the haunted world of Scandinavia and Sápmi ghost traditions—creaking with drowned sailors, mountain spirits, shamans, and the dreaded draugr, who rise from the sea with frozen rage.
Discover how Sámi noaidi communicated with the underworld through drums and trance, why the Norwegian coast, according to folklore,is filled with ghost ships and eerie spirits, and how the eternal twilight of the Arctic produced some of the most chilling spectral traditions on earth.
A night of folklore, death-myth, Arctic magic—and the ghosts who never went away.
Perfect for: lovers of folklore, hauntings, indigenous spirit-worlds, and the uncanny North.
Image: Theodor Kittelsen Draugen, ca. 1891 (The Sea-Ghost)
Speaker Bio:
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience
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