Digital Storytelling Historical Adventure River Wyre Lancashire England
02 September 2020
The River Wyre Lancashire
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Hi this is Eddy Jackson on the banks of
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the Upper River Wyre Wyre
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in Celtic means a winding river
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and I've given the clue of the title here
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because I am at this part of Lancashire
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where the Celts the Norse people
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the Anglo Saxons and the Picts
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fought for supremacy it's a
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fairly unique river in the British
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Isles it's very short and
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from here on the high ground of the Bowland fells
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look west and twenty miles you could
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see where the river Wyre goes into Morecambe
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Bay so this area
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a thousand years ago in the dark
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ages was an area of contest
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between different tribes it is also
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- contest's about
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religion I'm interested in
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language because of
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storytelling and narrative
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and I'm using language to tell a
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story about a
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certain time in history about
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Norse people Celts and
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Picts and the story I
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tell is about a Norse settlement that's
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raided by Celts and
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some of the Norse people are carried off
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and it's a story of redemption because the
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Norse go back to
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capture the
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slavers so the stories
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is not only an adventure story and historical tale
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it's about the use of language to have
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cognisance a recognition
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to the power of nature not only are
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rivers aren't pollutted but the
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animals and the bees - and the
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birds in the vegetation and the
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plantations that surround the area they
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play an integral part of the story
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so here I am putting a contemporary environmental
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hat on and trace their roots back to
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when this was a wild
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natural habitat and that
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- habitat plays a part in supporting
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the heroine of
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of this story so the
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stories and adventure story and
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historical - fiction story
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MAIN CHARACTER & HEROINE
Asta (Ash -ta) is a diminutive of Astrid. Astrid originates in Old Norse languages and means "divine beauty".
STORY PLOT
Extending ideas from Qulipo, land art, psychogeography, nature writing, experimental video poetry, and dystopian storytelling framed to support the teaching of resilience for education and emotional wellbeing.
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