The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash Richard Osmond but a sequence of visions’

but a sequence of visions’

Donald Rayfield

of culture - sometimes in awestruck fascination and other times in frantic despair

There is a tendency to describe liminal scenes and moods: dusk

The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr by Miriam Nash Richard Osmond but a sequence of visions’Miriams 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