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As generations passed, other folkloric explanations gained ground-that the Lights were reflections from the silvery shoals of herring swimming close to the water's surface, or that they were the light bouncing off icebergs rocking in the polar sea; that they were created by sunlight reflecting off the wings of migrating geese, or off swans trapped in the polar ice flapping desperately to free themselves.