northernness

The state or quality of being northern.

A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world.

Pure "Northernness" engulfed me: a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of Northern summer, remoteness, severity…and almost at the same moment I knew that I had met this before, long, long ago.