[Sca-cooks] OT- Northern Lights in period?

[Martin G. Diehl]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
> 
> Johnnae llyn Lewis mentioned:

> > I'm very busy in another part of Pentamere, south and east 
> > of Helena but still in Michigan. [But no northern lights 
> > here last night.

> Yes, there was a photo in my paper today showing the Northern 
> Lights in Kansas. Kansas???!
> 
> Hmmm. This is OT for this group, but does anyone know if we 
> have any period writings or legends that mention the Northern 
> Lights? 

The Northern Lights are also known as the "Aurora Borealis".  

> Perhaps at least from the Norse? 

(based on web search) "Bullfinch's Mythology" has references

This site associates the Valkyries with the "Aurora Borealis".  
http://www3.sympatico.ca/chartreuse/AvatarsOfTheGoddess/Norse.htm 

Quoting from "The Northern Route", ... 
The word "Nordrljos", or the northern lights, is mentioned for 
the first time in the Norwegian Kongespeilet (c. 1250). 
It's author had heard about the northern lights from fellow 
countrymen who went to Greenland. ... In Nordic mythology, the 
celestial bridge, "Bifrost", is mentioned as the link between 
not only Earth and the home of the gods but between life and 
death, as well. Such a notion may have been prompted by the 
northern lights."  
http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/northlight.htm

This site also links the Aurora Borealis to the bridge Bitfrost, 
http://www.freyja.com/Asatruabok/hallDetail.cfm?as=Heimdall&hl=Bifrost

I am noticing sites marked "Asatru" ... What does that mean?  

> What did they say they were?

Valkyries' armor, the celestial bridge, "Bifrost"; in addition, 
Bifrost translates to "Wavering Tumult or Chaos."

> Stefan

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