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The story of the Two Wolves is a memetic legend of unknown origin, commonly attributed to Cherokee or other indigenous American peoples in popular retelling. The legend is usually framed as a grandfather or elder passing wisdom to a young listener; the elder describes a battle between two wolves within one’s self, using the battle as a metaphor for inner conflict.
Francis Johnson Webb (March 21, 1828 – 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.His novel, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the second novel by an African American to be published, and the first to portray the daily lives of free blacks in the North.
Elaborating on the connection between wolves and figures of great power, he writes: "This is why Geri and Freki, the wolves at Woden's side, also glowered on the throne of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Wolf-warriors, like Geri and Freki, were not mere animals but mythical beings: as Woden's followers they bodied forth his might, and so did wolf-warriors."
Those are wolves, one going before the sun, the other after the moon." But wolves also served as mounts for more or less dangerous humanoid creatures. For instance, Gunnr's horse was a kenning for "wolf" on the Rök runestone, in the Lay of Hyndla, the völva Hyndla rides a wolf, and to Baldr's funeral, the gýgr Hyrrokin arrived on a wolf.
Legacy of Wolves (Marsheila Rockwell, June 2007, ISBN 978-0-7869-4293-0). Pat Ferrara of mania.com comments that the book "is a well-crafted story that, for all of its depth, feels like a miniscule slice out of a world that has a lot more is going on in it.
Jane Yolen's book, Children of the Wolf, is a fictionalized account of the story for young adult readers. Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple's book, History Mystery: The Wolf Girls, is a children's non-fiction book about the account. Lord Robert Baden-Powell gives a short account of the story in Chapter 6 of his 1940 book, More Sketches of Kenya
History of Wolves is a psychological fiction novel published in 2017 written by American author Emily Fridlund. [2] The novel blends the genres of bildungsroman and thriller to tell the story of a teen navigating through life-altering events. [ 3 ]
Child of the Wolves is a children's novel, published in 1996, [1] about a Siberian husky puppy that joins a wolf pack. It was written by Elizabeth Hall, wife of Island of the Blue Dolphins author, Scott O'Dell .