E CONTENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND A Legend of the Northland is a ballad. A ballad is a poem narrating a story in short stanzas.Ballad is such a kind of poem which tells a story in shortstanzas and all the stanzas comprise of four lines .In total , there are 16 stanzas in this poem and these stanzas tell us a story. Bllads are a part of folk culture and are passed on orally from one generation to the next.Folk culture comprises of traditional storieswhich are passed on from one generation to next generation. This story is of the Northland area,the area which is near to North pole.The exact place is not specified but Northland means the area in the northern most part of the earth.Legend means a historical story,one which is very old and has been paseed on from generation to generation.