Persephone Abbott

Posts tagged “Hillesoy

My Dearest Own Harald

Posted on August 17, 2025

Debunking my mother’s false identities since her death has taken years. Of course, she wove her disingenuous narratives for decades and targeted different communities with her various falsehoods. Every once in a while I come across an item and I think, “Let me address this, set the record straight.” It’s not only me, other family members have also been involved in this matter. A few months ago I wrote, again, to an American professor of Scandinavian studies. He had written a review of the book that my mother participated in — and in which she provided a story about her grandfather having been raised in a Sami family with Sami traditions. It’s all quite sensitive on a cultural plain, but I feel communication is…

On Hillesøy

Posted on July 2, 2024

Summer on the islandlong beaked birdsprod the groundand the grass is running*Near the sea arctic orchidstoo early for cloudberriestelevision crew circling the hoteland the grass is running*Red light on The Mermaid callsopen for ice creamseagulls swoop over the cemeteryand the grass is running*Friday clean house dayrhubarb soupbaby crow scratchingin the chimney pipeplop he drops downstares through grate windowand the grass is running