legend of the Northland
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The poem is a story of an old woman . She is asked by the Saint Peter for alms who has become weak because because of fasting and travelling . But her greed forces her not to give him anything . He becomes angry and makes her a woodpecker who bores hard , dry wood to get food . Her clothes are burnt to ashes and she is left with a cap on her head . She continues boring on a hard wood for her little food .
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‘A legend of the Northland’ is a ballad. A ballad is a poem narrating a story in short stanzas. Ballad is such kind of poem which tells a story in short stanzas and in the poem all the stanzas comprise four lines. In total, there are 16 stanzas in this poem and these stanzas will tell us a story. Ballads are a part of folk culture or popular culture and are passed on orally from one generation to the next. (Folk culture is a story of any area and is known as ballad). Folk culture comprises of traditional stories which are passed on from one generation to next generation.
This story is of the Northland area, the area which is near the North Pole. This exact place is not specified but ‘Northland’ means the area in the northernmost part of the earth i.e., near the North Pole. ‘Legend’ means a historical story, one which is very old and has been passed on from generation to generation.