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
Aurora Borealis (painting) pigment built together through thin applications, leaving the viewer unaware of fracture between strokes. These works are also built around the tones of "ochre, brown, gray going to blue or green, and green" at the expense of the full value of color. Completed in New York that winter, "Aurora Borealis" was exhibited publicly in London in 1865 as a triumvirate with two paintings by Church of Ecuadoran volcanoes: "Cotopaxi" (his 1862 painting of an eruption) and "Chimborazo" (his 1864 reprise of the dormant mountain that had been the subject of his 1858 masterwork "Heart of the Andes"). Created at the