by Lyonel Perabo | Feb 9, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
For the ancient Norsemen, drinking was much more than just consuming alcoholic beverages. Drinking ale and mead was instead part of their ancestral lifestyle and had deep cultural and religious significance. Why do people tend to associate Vikings and drinking? In our...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jan 19, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
More than a millennium ago, within the barren wastes of the cold Arctic North, lived a people of great courage and strength whose remarkable feats have been recorded in countless tomes of ancient Sagas. Prepare to meet the hardiest Northmen of the Medieval ages, the...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jan 5, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
North-America has traditionally been inhabited by countless indigenous peoples, each of them with their own homelands, languages or dialects and of course also mythologies. As a result of this impressive diversity, tales and legends of the Northern Lights tend...
by Lyonel Perabo | Dec 1, 2014 | BIVROST Stories
What did the Viking believe about the Northern Lights? Do the tales of the God-Bridge Bivröst reflect the Norsemen’s visions of the Aurora Borealis? The Vikings never wrote books, but their descendants produced thousands of manuscripts during the...
