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).
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