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In the Völundarkviða, Wayland Smith and his brothers marry valkyries who dress in swan skins.. The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which she can appear either as a bird or as a woman; those in which one of the elements of the narrative is the theft of the feather-robe belonging to a ...
She wrote in various media. Her first book of poetry, Riddym Ravings, was published in 1988 by the Race Today Collective, [7] with the title poem, also known as "The Mad Woman's Poem", being described by Linton Kwesi Johnson as "a classic in contemporary Caribbean poetry" [13] and featuring in Margaret Busby's 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa ...
He is codenamed 'Peter Pan'. His wings are white, with silver and dark-blue markings. Ozymandias: Named after Ozymandias, a fictional character in the poem by the same name, he is second-born and alpha male. He would be the leader of the flock if Max died. He is not much younger than Max. He has brown hair, green eyes, and black wings.
The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm (61–85 in) wingspan.
Minnehaha is a Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean "laughing water", literally translates to "waterfall" or "rapid water" in Dakota. [1]
The Bird of Time is a poetry collection book by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu in 1912. The book consists of four chapters, which contain 47 poems in total. It is Naidu's second book and most strongly nationalist book of poems, published from both London and New York City.
Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh, lit. ' double-life '), [1] was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Former title: Bore the title: "On Approaching Home After A Tour In Scotland, 1803" in 1815 and 1820 editions. "Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!" Miscellaneous Sonnets (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1815 The Blind Highland Boy. (XV) Unknown A tale told by the fire-side after Returning to the Vale of Grasmere.