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This drawing made by a 17th-century Icelander shows the four stags on the World Tree. Neither deer nor ash trees are native to Iceland. In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The ...
John Robert McCloskey (September 15, 1914 [2] – June 30, 2003) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.He both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, [1] and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year's best-illustrated picture book.
Six species of deer are living wild in Great Britain: [1] Scottish red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, sika deer, Reeves's muntjac, and Chinese water deer. [2] Of those, Scottish red and roe deer are native and have lived in the isles throughout the Holocene.
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The deer guides them to safety and persuades flowers to bloom out of season so the bees will have food. Then the deer saves a party of traveling merchants who have lost their way by magically moving the mountains to make a clear path for them. The story that a magical nine-colored deer has come to the country begins to spread among the people.
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The peryton is a mythological hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird.The peryton was invented by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 Book of Imaginary Beings, using the fictional device of a supposedly long-lost medieval manuscript.