Winter And Spring

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Weather And Seasons

Winter

The Structure Of Star Of The Sea

Poul Anderson's works set in historical or prehistorical periods often describe seasonal changes particularly at the beginning of a chapter or of some other discrete narrative passage.

In The Broken Sword, XXIV:

"Winter bled away under the joyous weapons of spring." (p. 176)

"As the weeks passed into months, [Freda] felt the same stirring within her that brought back the birds and called forth buds like clenched baby fists." (p. 177)

"Winter went in rain and pealing thunder. The first soft green spread over trees and meadows. The birds came home." (p. 178)

"[Freda] stood in twilight with the blossoms of an apple tree overhead, drifting down on her at each mild breeze. The winter was gone. Skafloc lived in the springtime, in cloud and shadow, dawn and sunset and high-riding moon, he spoke through the wind and laughed through the rain. There would be winter, and winter again, in the great unending ring-dance of the sun. But she bore the summer beneath her heart, and every summer to come." (ibid.)

"The days lengthened and earth burst into its fullness. Warm winds, shouting rains, birdsong and deer and fish silvery in the rivers, flowers and light nights - More and more Freda felt her baby stirring." (p. 179)

Chapter XXV begins:

"In late summer the northland weather turned rainy. For days and nights on end, wind scourged the elf-hills and veiled them in lightning-blinking grey." (p. 180)