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The Ferryman is a 2023 dystopian fiction novel by Justin Cronin. The protagonist, Proctor Bennett, is a titular "ferryman", responsible for transporting elderly citizens to be reborn. Proctor gradually realizes that his utopian life is not what it seems. The Ferryman is Cronin's first novel since 2016's The City of Mirrors.
The nature of the quest differs; sometimes an object or the rescue of a loved one is sought, while in other stories knowledge and secret revelations is the goal. The ability to enter the realm of the dead while still alive, and to return, is proof of the classical hero's exceptional status as more than mortal.
The Suda defines danakē as a coin traditionally buried with the dead for paying the ferryman to cross the river Acheron, [10] and explicates the definition of porthmēïon as a ferryman's fee with a quotation from the poet Callimachus, who notes the custom of carrying the porthmēïon in the "parched mouths of the dead." [11]
In antiquity, it was customary to place coins in or on the mouth of the deceased before cremation, symbolizing payment for the ferryman's service to transport them to Hades. The series comprises eight episodes, all written by Michael J. Bird , who drew upon his knowledge of Crete, where the series is set, incorporating local history and folklore.
In this poem, the ferryman Harbard and the god Thor compete in a flyting or verbal contest with one other. The ferryman Hárbarðr (Greybeard) is rude and obnoxious towards Thor who is returning to Asgard after a journey in Jötunheimr, the land of the jötnar. Hárbarðr obstructs his way and refuses him passage across a swollen river.
"Death as a ferryman", a satirical drawing from Punch, 1858. Aesop sometimes plays a part in his own fables where the circumstances in which he tells the story are mentioned. . In this he is mocked by a Ferryman, or boat-builders in another account, and tells them how they will soon be out of a j
The Ferryman is a 2017 play by Jez Butterworth. Set during The Troubles , it tells the story of the family of a former IRA volunteer, living in their farmhouse in rural County Armagh , Northern Ireland in 1981.
But marriage between uncle and niece, though common in many cultures, does not normally appear in old Scandinavian literature. The name Hildólfr appears in the eddic poem Hárbarðsljóð, applied by the ferryman Hárbarðr to his supposed master. But Harbard is actually Odin in disguise and there is no clear reference here to a son of Odin.