The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash Winter Bulletin Satchidanandan

Satchidanandan

Miss Jacqui

transformative change along with the sense of living that change—its rhythms and patterns

varied poetic lines embody the present and the historic

  An elegiac sequence

The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash Winter Bulletin SatchidanandanMiriams own Scandinavian ancestry started her on a quest to find the nine mothers, Jtunn or giants, who gave birth to the god Heimdallr. Although they are named in extant Norse literature, their stories remained untold. In Miriams poem, these giants are the protagonists, as they impart their creation myth to Heimdallr in a cave on the edge of the Norse world. In developing the project, which began as a commission for the podcast series Bedtime Stories