by Lyonel Perabo | Mar 30, 2016 | BIVROST Stories
While she is little-known outside Scandinavia today, Queen Gunnhildr from Arctic Norway was, during her reign in the Viking Age, one of Europe’s most powerful woman, almost single-handedly exemplifying the image of the strong-willed Viking woman. According to...
by Lyonel Perabo | Feb 23, 2016 | BIVROST Stories
Arctic Norway and Scotland have more in common than just Fjords and the Aurora Borealis. In Medieval times, immediately following the eventful Viking Age, the lord of Arctic Norway was engaged in a sensitive political controversy which had its origin in the two...
by Lyonel Perabo | Jul 29, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Despite being isolated from mainland Europe, North-Norway has managed to attract a surprisingly large amount of kings, princes and other emperors. So why exactly do royals keep on visiting the Norwegian Arctic? Depends, some come for war, others for love, and a good...
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...
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...
