Category: Auroras and Their Mythic Interpretations

Auroras: Veils to the Other World in Norse Myths

Auroras in Norse Myth: What the Sagas Actually Say Auroras in Norse myth function as veils, not stage curtains. The medieval Old Norse sources rarely name the northern lights outright, yet the imagery they preserve, of bridges between worlds, of armored women crossing the sky, of fires above the deep north, supplies the symbolic vocabulary […]