by Lyonel Perabo | Jul 22, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
More than a century ago, the Norwegian Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen led a group of bold adventurers where, literally, no-one had gone before: across the ice-sheet of Greenland. Greenland was first discovered in the last years of the Xth Century by Norwegians...
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 | May 31, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
The summer in the Arctic Region is dominated by the towering sight of one of the greatest phenomena in the world: The Midnight Sun. The Midnight Sun is an astronomical phenomenon that can be observed in the Arctic and the Antarctic beyond each of the Polar...