Commissioned by City of Seattle and Scan Design Foundation.
“In the night, there was a storm, there at the beach where she was born
And Idun felt a feeling wrong, and so she walked there in the dawn
And in a flute, the magic horn, a tune so passionate and strong
She played for them an orca song to ask them where they all had gone“
Brunn Idun stands on the shoreline playing her flute to the Orca’s to ask them why they have all left the Pugeut Sound. Her flute was made by artist, John Halliday Aka Coyote from the Muckleshoot Tribe. On August 25th, the Mayor of Seattle, Bruce A. Harrel, declared it “Brunn Idun Day”. This special recognition celebrates Bruun Idun’s and the Trolls’ contributions to our collective stewardship environmental management, water protection, repairing habitat restoration, preservation and conservation. Every August 25th is Bruun Idun Day.
BRUUN IDUN troll sculpture by Thomas Dambo is part of a series of six site-specific installations called Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King. Located at Seattle’s Lincoln Park, West Seattle’s major multi-purpose park – a nose-shaped bluff on Puget Sound just north of the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal. Switchbacks on the north and gentle trails to the south connect a mile of seawalls, rocky beaches to a bluff of grassy forests and meadows with play and picnic areas galore. The Scan Design Foundation dedicated to advancing Danish American relations through the exchange of people, ideas and cultural experiences.
Where can you visit “Bruun Idun”?
We now know that troll is Bruun Idun. She is located just off the walking path behind the Colman Swimming Pool in West Seattle’s Lincoln Park, where she sits watching the ferries arrive and depart from the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal. She holds a recorder that she uses to play tunes to attract the orcas as they swim by.
