The Haunted Dale

songs and tales for all ages




~ Interactive storytelling ~


novelist Joyce Holt brings to audiences a delightful array of folktales from the Norwegian province of Telemark, as well as folksongs from all over Norway! Songs and tales for youngsters and graybeards and everyone in-between.

Onlookers at the Haunted Dale get to choose a needle-felted figurine to put up on the mountain landscape, and see what song or tale matches fox or goat, pig-keeper or bride, elf or troll!


a lake serpent or sea dragon; 
                    one such monster haunts Lake Kviteseid,
                    or so say the tales in Telemark, Norway

a banner for Holt's booth, The Haunted Dale  
storyboard used in Holt's booth, The Haunted Dale