THE OLD FABLED RIVER

In January 2019, at the invitation of fiddler
Hans Kjorstad, Alasdair Roberts travelled
from his home in Glasgow, Scotland to Oslo,
Norway, where the two men convened with five

additional Scandinavian musicians at Rikss-
cenen, Oslo's centre for Norwegian traditional

arts and music. Thus newly-formed, the group

worked on arrangements of songs-self-writ-
ten and traditional-from Alasdair's back

catalogue, in preparation for performances at

Riksscenen as well as at ALICE in Copenha-
gen, Denmark and the bucolic western Danish

island of Fan . The group was named V lvur

(The Seeresses), a reference to the ancient Ice-
landic apocalyptic text V luspa (The Prophecy

of the Seeress).