Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #126

(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)

126.) Iceblink
-noun singular

a.) A bright reflection of sunlight, especially in polar regions, on the bottom of a low cloud, caused by ice on a distant expanse of water or land.*

[Origin: From the English words ice and blink, possibly a translation of the Dutch ijsblink or Danish isblink.]

*Like Saint Elmo’s fire, foxfire, or will-o-the-wisps, iceblinks are a physical phenomenon that would have easily fallen into the category of mysterious effects of the other side in the eyes of earlier cultures.