by Lyonel Perabo | Feb 8, 2017 | BIVROST Stories
Finally in 1919, following decades of political and cultural battles that bitterly split the country, the Norwegian people voted in majority to uphold a temporary parliament resolution passed in 1916 banning the production and sale of alcohol. The long process of...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jan 27, 2017 | BIVROST Stories
Ragnarok, “the doom of the Gods”, is possibly the best-known of all the Norse mythological events described in ancient poetry and prose. First-mentioned in the epic poem Voluspå (“the prophecy of the seeress”), probably composed around the year 1000, the poem...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jan 27, 2017 | BIVROST Stories
Sitting atop Bivrost, the Northern Lights bridge, is the mighty Heimdall. The powerful God, whose mission it is to guard both Åsgård, the land of the Gods, and Midgård, the land of men. He was also, according to the Medieval poem Rígsþula, the father of mankind on...
by Lyonel Perabo | Apr 30, 2016 | BIVROST Stories
A little-known episode in the history of modern skiing took place in the Arctic city of Tromsø when, in 1843, the world’s first skiing competition took place… It is known that already in pre-Historic times the peoples of the Arctic used skis for...
by Lyonel Perabo | Apr 30, 2016 | BIVROST Stories
A little-known aspect of the worldwide confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States of America was the surprisingly extensive Spying activities going on in the Norwegian Arctic. In this remote corner of the globe the great powers were fighting for...
