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

[Bj/Jane Tremaine]

We could see them in the deserts of Souther California, well when the rain
clouds left.

Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl at nac.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT- Northern Lights in period?


> 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
>
> Vincenzo
>
> --
> Martin G. Diehl
>
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