Question 1 1. Which country or countries do you think “the Northland” refers to? 2. What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for? What was the lady’s reaction? 3. How did he punish her? 4. How does the woodpecker get her food? 5. Do you think that the old lady would have been so ungenerous if she had known who Saint Peter really was? What would she have done then? 6. Is this a true story? Which part of this poem do you feel is the most important? 7. What is a legend? Why is this poem called a legend? 8. Write the story of ‘A Legend of the Northland’ in about ten sentences.
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1. The Northland can refer to any extremely cold land or area in the Earth's north polar region.
2. Saint Peter ask the old lady for one of her baked cakes to satisfy his hunger. The old lady tried to bake a small cake for him.
3.The saint punished the lady by changing her into a woodpecker that built as birds do and gathered scanty food by boring in the hard,dry wood all day long.
4.The woodpecker gets her food by boring in the hard,dry wood all day long.
5.No,the old lady would have been so ungenerous if she had known who Saint Peter really was. But instead she would have tried to please him very much with her cakes to fulfill her greedy desires.
6.I dont think that this story is true.It is only a legend.
I think that the point where the old lady changed into a woodpecker is most important as it teaches us the consequences of being ungenerous.
7.A legend is a very old story or set of stories from ancient times which is nonhistorical or unverifiable and usually contains a message or a moral.This poem is said to be a legend because:-
i) The poet himself tells that he does not believe this story to be true.
ii) It contains the message of showing generosity towards others.
8.i)Once St. Peter stopped by an old lady's cottage as he was feeling hungry.
ii)Since he was weak with fasting,he asked her for a cake from her store of cakes.
iii)The lady started to bake a small cake for Saint Peter but after the cake was done she found it too big to be given for free.
iv)So she decided to bake an even smaller cake.
v)This went on and on till she made a paper thin wafer for Saint Peter but she kept it also because she was too greedy to part with a single morsel of food.
vi) On observing her greed Saint Peter became very angry at her.
vii) He cursed her to become a bird and live searching for scanty food in the jungle, by boring all day in the dry and hard wood.
viii) Thus, she was transformed into a woodpecker.
ix) All her clothes except her scarlet cap were gone as she went up the chimney and flew out of the top.
x) After that people have been seeing her in the wood where she lives by boring and boring the dry wood in search of food.
2. Saint Peter ask the old lady for one of her baked cakes to satisfy his hunger. The old lady tried to bake a small cake for him.
3.The saint punished the lady by changing her into a woodpecker that built as birds do and gathered scanty food by boring in the hard,dry wood all day long.
4.The woodpecker gets her food by boring in the hard,dry wood all day long.
5.No,the old lady would have been so ungenerous if she had known who Saint Peter really was. But instead she would have tried to please him very much with her cakes to fulfill her greedy desires.
6.I dont think that this story is true.It is only a legend.
I think that the point where the old lady changed into a woodpecker is most important as it teaches us the consequences of being ungenerous.
7.A legend is a very old story or set of stories from ancient times which is nonhistorical or unverifiable and usually contains a message or a moral.This poem is said to be a legend because:-
i) The poet himself tells that he does not believe this story to be true.
ii) It contains the message of showing generosity towards others.
8.i)Once St. Peter stopped by an old lady's cottage as he was feeling hungry.
ii)Since he was weak with fasting,he asked her for a cake from her store of cakes.
iii)The lady started to bake a small cake for Saint Peter but after the cake was done she found it too big to be given for free.
iv)So she decided to bake an even smaller cake.
v)This went on and on till she made a paper thin wafer for Saint Peter but she kept it also because she was too greedy to part with a single morsel of food.
vi) On observing her greed Saint Peter became very angry at her.
vii) He cursed her to become a bird and live searching for scanty food in the jungle, by boring all day in the dry and hard wood.
viii) Thus, she was transformed into a woodpecker.
ix) All her clothes except her scarlet cap were gone as she went up the chimney and flew out of the top.
x) After that people have been seeing her in the wood where she lives by boring and boring the dry wood in search of food.
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