To which curious meteorological phenomenon, according to Arthurian legend, did King Arthurs sister give her name?
Aurora borealis according to www.swifty.com/apase/bandc/sun.htm It’s 12 Midnight in June and the sun is bright but low on the horizon. The pale sunlight isn’t bright enough to provide much warmth but it is comforting to have light in this cold, rarefied environment. Looking southward out to sea, toward the low sun, you see icebergs across the horizon. They shimmer in the sunlight and the distant ice floes appear to have grown upward into shimmering blue and white columns like the towers and spires of a fairy castle. Back to the North, there are more treats for your eyes. The sky is shimmering like a great rippling green curtain. This curtain, though, is made of light. It pulses and swirls and changes colour {slightly;} now you see flickers of red and pale purple. Your eyes are wide open, alert because there is no sound at all. The fantastic spires and towers (a ‘mirage’) has been called the fata morgana by early Arctic explorers. The name comes from Fairy Morgan, King Arthur’s sister,
