ARCTIC SAGA

Northern Norway

After two full weeks of cloudy days, snowstorms and blizzards during my expedition to Northern Norway, the Northern Lights finally danced across the Arctic sky along the fjords of Kvaløya. Reflecting in the water, it appeared as if two worlds had merged into one, forming intricate patterns from above and below. In Finland, the name for the Northern Lights is revontulet, literally translated as ‘fire fox’. The name comes from a beautiful myth that Arctic foxes produced the Aurora. These fire foxes would run through the sky so fast that their tails swept snowflakes up into the sky, which caught the moonlight and created the Northern Lights.