A Woman in The Polar Night - Christiane Ritter Poetry & Song the Norse - came to

the Norse - came to the British Isles in longships made of oak

Loose fitting

are driven by their selfish DNA

Drawing on her experiences as a scientist

A Woman in The Polar Night - Christiane Ritter Poetry & Song the Norse - came toIn 1933, Christiane Ritter, a painter from Austria, travelled to Spitsbergen, an Arctic island north of Norway, to be with her husband. He had been taking part in a scientific expedition and stayed on to hunt and fish. Leave everything as it is and follow me to the Arctic, he wrote to his wife; but for Christiane, as for all central Europeans, the Arctic was just another word for freezing and forsaken solitude. I did not follow at once. Eventually she