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a legend of the northland explanations

Answer 1

This poem narrates the legend of an old lady who angered saint peter because of greed. once a good Saint Peter came to the door of a cottage by traveling whole the earth. In that Cottage A Little Women was making cake and baking them on the hearth. The Saint was about to faint with fasting for almost the whole day. He ask a single cake to her from her store of cakes. so, she made a very little cake but as it baked out she thought that it was very big to give away. Therefore she kneaded another cake which was still smaller. But when she turned over it the cake looked as larger as the first one. Then she took a tiny scrap of the dough and rolled it flat as thin as a wafer. But then also she was not happy, she said this cakes look very small but when she eat them herself they are yet too large to give away. so she put them on the shelf. Then good Saint Peter's grew angry because he was hungry and he said that she was far too selfish to be in a human form, to have both food and shelter and fire to keep her warm. So the good friend Peter changed her into a Woodpecker and said that now she should build as the Birds do and she should eat her scanty food by boring and boring all day in the dry wood. she had a Scarlet cap on her head and every country school boy has seen her in the wood. Till today she lives in the trees boring and boring for food.

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