Northern Lights Cathedral Church as the main church for the deanery. The "Northern Lights" are the Aurora Borealis associated with the Arctic night sky. At the opening service, bishop Per Oskar Kjølaas admitted that the word was contentious since it technically meant not a parish church but a cathedral (for which the more common Norwegian word is ). He defended the name by the informal precedents of the and , and argued that a bishop is at home in all churches of the diocese. Northern Lights Cathedral The Northern Lights Cathedral - Alta Church () is a parish church of the Church of
Under the Northern Sky (poetry collection) my liberal friends, for there is no liberalism in them, with the 'degrading' motives aplenty." The collection's general mood was captured in an epigraph, from the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau: "All the divine things enter my life invariably accompanied by sorrow." The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary later described the book as full of "greyness, hopelessness and gloom." Yet, Balmont's misgivings proved groundless: the reaction to the publication was positive. Critics liked the musical quality of his poetry, exquisiteness of form and the sense of tension which enlivened the general atmosphere of gloom. Under the Northern Sky (poetry collection) Under