[ 00 ] Featured story
[ 01 ] Latest from the coast
Fresh off the block
Voyages
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12
min
Three weeks on the sea road
We followed an old trading route by open boat, sleeping wherever the tide let us land.
Sagas
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8
min
What the ravens saw
Why every old story keeps a raven in the corner, watching and remembering.
Iron
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9
min
The last smith in the valley
Eirik lights the forge at six. By noon the axe head has a name.
Hearth
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6
min
Rye bread for the dark months
A dense, sour loaf that keeps for a week and tastes better on day four.
Sagas
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7
min
The wolf at the edge of the map
Old maps drew wolves where the roads ran out. Some places still feel that way.
Voyages
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10
min
The ridge above the fjord
Six hours up, twenty minutes on top, and a long talk with the wind.
[ 03 ] Written on the first page of every issue
Write it down
Before the snow
covers it
Ylva Strand, editor
[ 02 ] Four folders
Pick a folder
Sagas
Old stories, retold for the long nights.
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What the ravens saw
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The wolf at the edge of the map
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Churches built like ships
Voyages
Sea roads, high ridges and the way home.
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Three weeks on the sea road
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The ridge above the fjord
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Chasing the green lights
Iron
Forges, tools and the people who make things.
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The last smith in the valley
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An anvil older than the house
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Knives, spoons and patience
Hearth
Bread, fire and a table for the winter.
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Rye bread for the dark months
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A cabin, a fire, a winter
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Every candle in the house
[ 04 ] The crew
Six hands on the oars
Ylva Strand
Editor
Writes about old roads and older stories from a farm above the fjord.
Eirik Hald
Smith & writer
Runs a small forge and writes down what the iron teaches him.
Sigrun Vale
Travel
Walks the coast in every season and sends the notes home.
Halvar Oske
History
Retired teacher, keeper of the parish records and its ghosts.
Tove Lind
Photography
Photographs the dark half of the year, mostly by candle.
Arne Mork
Food
Bakes rye on a wood stove and argues about butter.
[ 05 ] The newsletter
One letter a fortnight: new stories, a recipe and a picture from the coast.
