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...
by Lyonel Perabo | May 19, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
The seventeenth of May is Norway’s National day, celebrated all over the country and throughout the world wherever there are Norwegians, but the meaning of this day is somewhat different for those living in the Norwegian High North… 1814 was a very...
