the sun at midnight
`` The sun goes all round , '' said he , waving his arm in the direction of the distant circle of the blue waters . `` It always remains very low , because it has no strength to rise ; at midnight , it drags a bit through the water , but soon gets up and begins its journey round again . Sometimes the moon appears too , at the other side of the sky ; then they move together , and you ca n't very well tell one from t ` other , for they are much alike in that queer country . '' To see the sun at midnight ! How very far off Iceland must be for such marvels to happen ! And the fjords ? Gaud had read that word several times written among the names of the dead in the chapel of the shipwrecked , and it seemed to portend some grisly thing .