by Lyonel Perabo | Jul 6, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Almost 600 years ago an Venetian vessel sank by the treacherous reefs of North-Norway. After escaping the wreck and coming ashore, the crew discovered a landscape full of drying fish, bone-chilling cold and primitive buildings. This strange encounter would ultimately...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jun 24, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
For Millenia the inhabitants of Arctic Norway have lived by and for the sea. In the unforgiving northern landscape where the soil gives only meager means for survival, the men and women of this land lived to harvest the sea. In the Bronze and Iron Age, more...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jun 9, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Intellectuals from the Medieval Islamic world were among the wisest and most knowledgeable of their time and some were extremely well-informed about the mysterious North, the land of the Northern Lights and the Polar Night. In the year 922, the Iraqi dignitary and...
by Lyonel Perabo | Apr 20, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Óðinn is often described as the chief God of the Norsemen and what’s more fitting for a chief than drinking fine wines? A noble activity that was enthusiastically embraced by his many followers as well. Vikings and other Norsemen loved their alcohol and...
by Lyonel Perabo | Apr 13, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
An Eighth-century scholar from Northern Italy tells the Northern Lights tales of his people. Most people nowadays have never heard about Paulus Diaconus (Paul the Deacon) but back in the days, he was one of the most influential men of letters in Europe. Paul the...
