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'Children conceived under the northern lights are blessed with intelligence and wisdom. It turns out this is a recent urban legend masquerading as ancient knowledge, Still, it has propagated and even appears on the Greenland tourism website, which is where I read it. I did not know this when I visited Greenland, but something about the idea of phantasmal lights had the feel of fate, and it gave me hope.' (Introduction)
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- 2021 shortlisted Island Nonfiction Prize
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cGreenland,ccDenmark,cScandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
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