When she arrives her eyes smart from unending daylight; then comes the long night, with its psychological challenges. She experiences 𝘳𝘢𝘳, the Norwegian word for the strangeness that afflicts many who overwinter in the polar regions. All indigenous languages, such as Inuktitut, have a word for 𝘳𝘢𝘳.

— A woman in the polar night by Christiane Ritter, Jane Degras, Rebecca Gallagher (Narrator)