by arctic Author | May 20, 2014 | BIVROST Stories
Tale of the Northern Lights Saami tale about the boy who teased the sun, moon, stars and northern lights . Two brothers once ran off to separate the reindeers. In the morning when the sun rose, the youngest yoiked (chanted): The sunman shinesYells at allwhich is...
by arctic Author | May 20, 2014 | BIVROST Stories
The Italian explorer and airship designer Umberto Nobile (1885-1978) was a pioneer in Arctic aviation. His dirigible flight over the North Pole encouraged greater use of aircraft in the Arctic.Umberto Nobile was born in Lauro, Italy (near Naples) on January 21, 1885....
by arctic Author | May 20, 2014 | BIVROST Stories
Ohthere of Hålogaland is often referred to as the first North Norwegian man. He was a Viking Age seafarer known only from an account of his travels which he gave to King Alfred of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex around 890 AD. His account was incorporated into an...
by arctic Author | May 20, 2014 | BIVROST Stories
Knut Jentoft from Storfjord in North Troms travelled in 1985 to Nordland to buy a fishing boat. He bought the boat “Sjøliv” that had been used for fishing in Lofoten for many years. The former owner of the vessel, Frank Josefsen, told Jentoft that the boat he had...
by arctic Author | May 20, 2014 | BIVROST Stories
In the summer of 1961 Professor Povl Simonsen of the University of Tromsø made an excavation of an indigenous grave on Bonki Island, just next to the larger Årøya Island in the Lyngen Fjord. The grave was located on a small cliff on the western side of the island. The...
