Aurora elders from watching or interpreting the messages of ancestors they believed were transmitted through an aurora. "[[Bulfinch's Mythology]]" relates that in [[Norse mythology]], the armour of the [[Valkyrie|Valkyrior]] "sheds a strange flickering light, which flashes up over the northern skies, making what Men call the 'aurora borealis', or 'Northern Lights' ". There appears to be no evidence in [[Old Norse literature]] to substantiate this assertion. The first Old Norse account of "norðrljós" is found in the Norwegian chronicle "[[Konungs Skuggsjá]]" from AD 1230. The chronicler has heard about this phenomenon from compatriots returning from [[Greenland]], and he gives three possible
Linnaea borealis significant concern for the conservation of this species in such places, such as Ice Mountain in West Virginia, a low-elevation algific talus slope with persisting buried ice. Linnaeus took "Linnaea borealis" as his own personal symbol when he was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1757. In his "" (1737), Linnaeus had used Gronovius's name "Linnaea" as an example to advocate the use of commemorative personal names as botanical names: The flower of "Linnaea borealis" is the provincial flower of Småland, the home province of Linnaeus. Linnaea borealis Linnaea borealis is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae