by Lyonel Perabo | Jan 5, 2016 | BIVROST Stories
Where does Santa live? Somewhere up North for sure, but where exactly…It´s this crucial question that the Arctic countries have been waging war against each other over for the last couple decades, a most tragic war, the Arctic Santa War! Any kid...
by Lyonel Perabo | Dec 29, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
The numerous traditions surrounding Jul, the Nordic Christmas, are both unique and colorful. Some of the most remarkable and noteworthy ones are presented today. As we established in the previous post of this series ( Jul, a Nordic Christmas pt 1 : The Ancient...
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 | Nov 11, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
As Northern Lights photography progressively leapt into the Digital realm in the early two-thousands, it soon became possible not only to take still images of the Aurora but also moving ones, Aurora videos in other words! As shown in the previous installments of this...
