CHAPTER-5 A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND
Thinking about the Poem
I.
QUESTION-8
Write the story of ‘A Legend of the Northland’ in about ten
sentences.
ANSWER:
A Legend of the Northland
Once, Saint Peter was feeling very hungry and he asked for alms from an
old lady. He asked if she could give him a piece of cake to eat. The lady
was very selfish. She kept reducing the size of the cake as she felt that the
size of the cake was too big to be given away as alms. At last she did not
give him any cake.
Saint Peter grew angry and cursed her to become a woodpecker. He said
that from now on, she will have to bore dry, hard wood in order to get food.
All her clothes got burnt in the chimney and till this day, woodpeckers bore
all day long for food and water.