by Lyonel Perabo | Dec 12, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
In the North, Christmas is celebrated quite differently from the rest of the world. One reason for this is that the modern celebration of Christmas has been strongly influenced by an earlier feast, celebrated even before the Age of the Vikings, Jul ! The origin...
by Lyonel Perabo | Nov 22, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Most tend to associate Pirates with the Caribbean, warm weather, azure skies and sunny sand-beaches. However, Pirates were also found in many other places, a few of them even laid waste to the Norwegian Arctic some four centuries ago… Thanks to movies,...
by Lyonel Perabo | Oct 3, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
In our previous installment of this series, we talked about how the Aurora was traditionally painted or drawn in the Renaissance and the Early Modern period. Today we will look at the way people represented the Aurora through Analog Photography. While analog...
by Lyonel Perabo | Sep 25, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
With the joint development of the Internet and digital photography, pictures of Northern Lights are easy to come by. This wasn’t the case in the previous centuries though, and artists of these times had only one way to capture the iridescent beauty of the Aurora...
by Lyonel Perabo | Sep 15, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
Who doesn’t know about Reindeer? The horned animal is considered by many a symbol of the Arctic which can be found all over the Arctic and has become entwined with the way of life of Polar peoples in various fascinating ways. Fifteen-thousand years ago,...
