by Lyonel Perabo | Mar 23, 2017 | BIVROST Stories
Bivrost, the Northern Lights bridge has been known to connects the land of men with the land of the Gods in Old Norse myth. Few, however, known that others bridges and paths connect the remaining lands of the mythical Viking world. According to the Norse poem...
by Lyonel Perabo | Mar 10, 2017 | BIVROST Stories
In Old Norse myths, one major recurring theme is the opposition between the Gods, together with their human progenies, against the Jötnar, Þursar, Rísar and Trolls, the giant-kind. Throughout the numerous Pagan poems of the Poetic Edda as well as in quite a few...
by Lyonel Perabo | Feb 20, 2017 | BIVROST Stories
It is time for me to ride along the blood-red roads, to set the pale horse treading the path through the sky; I must cross the wind-vault’s bridge in the West, before Salgofnir awakens the victorious people. These rather cryptic words are taken from an Old Norse...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jan 31, 2016 | BIVROST Stories
High up North along the coast of Arctic Norway lie two long fjords whose names call back memories of ancestral Gods and a civilization that has now become legend. These fjords are the fjords of the ancient Norse Gods. There is a lot we modern people simply...
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...