by Lyonel Perabo | Jul 22, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
More than a century ago, the Norwegian Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen led a group of bold adventurers where, literally, no-one had gone before: across the ice-sheet of Greenland. Greenland was first discovered in the last years of the Xth Century by Norwegians...
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 15, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
If you thought that winter in Arctic Norway was all doom and gloom, think again! There may be no sun at all for many weeks up beyond the Polar Circle, but the night shines instead with much more than just one light. It is pretty safe to say that the huge...
by Lyonel Perabo | Dec 27, 2014 | BIVROST Stories
Among the peoples of the Arctic, the Inuits are by far the Northernmost. Originating from the Bering Strait a thousand years ago, the first Inuits spread across the North-American Arctic and established their homelands in what later became known as Greenland, Northern...
