All Is Found: Call of the Cuckoo
That Northuldra legend we were waiting for. It briefly mentions little Iduna. She listens to a story of a couple from different tribes who fall in love and got to live together in the Northuldra camp, the man's grandmother was a Northuldra and had a sigil of the tribe she gave to her grandson; kind of a foreshadowing for Iduna, the shawl and F2. The story has some interesting details from the life of the Northuldra tribe.
“I can’t believe he left his family behind to live with Lejla,” one young girl said loudly.
“You wouldn’t do anything you could to be with someone you loved?” the man asked.
“I love the forest and the reindeer and my family. I don’t think I could love anyone as much as all of them,” she responded.
“You may change your mind when you get older, Iduna,” he said with a quick pat to her head.
In this story, we have two once kindred people/tribes: the People of the Sun(our Northuldra) and the People of the Sky(the Aljel)The Aljel live closer to Arendelle Kingdom and have a more "modern" way of life with wooden cabins, some advanced tools etc, whereas the Northuldra keep their old traditions and are a more closed off culture in general: "If you go out too many times, you will lose your memory of the Northuldra." The People of the Sun and of the Sky have some prejudice and wariness about each other: "She began to warn them about the sky man they had encountered".
(So, we already have the people of the sun and the people of the sky. Who else can be there? People of the moon("midnight sun" in their culture) for example – I would like Elsa to encounter a darker mystic tribe in F3 – or of the northern lights?.. It's really interesting)
They were thrilled to be out in the land of the people of the sky
How the Northuldra hide their camp:
Then she looked around carefully to make sure they were alone before she raised her wooden walking stick and said the key words: “Skongally, skongally, please let the Northuldra in.”
The sun shone down through a parting in the trees, illuminating a path that hadn’t been apparent before. “Don’t you stand there, boy. Go home now!”
Woman walked away from the sunlight path and it disappeared into the darkness of the underbrush.
The tents that they lived in were called lavvoes, and they clustered throughout the camp, declaring it home. The crackling campfires added to the coziness, and the herds of reindeer stamped and snorted.
According to legend, all the daughters of the Northuldra needed to rinse their hair in waterfalls
Necklace made of reindeer horn and hung the amulet around her grandson’s neck
She knew for a fact that water had a very good memory, and it didn’t seem that any of the waters she had encountered remembered the young man of the sky people who had been watching them
“She is our oldest, and she is teaching the young ones how to get bad spirits out from our village”
"Nothing is strange, boy. We believe in destiny"
The number seven was a powerful number for the Northuldra people. And if one of the sky people like Clemet wanted to marry one of the Northuldra, they needed to wash their face with seven kinds of water
There is some other custom of marrying a Northuldra woman, the one they don't like but still keep: a Sky man using a special silver coin on a Sun woman. Once used, the coin obliged the two to merry.
Fally also told them that the young man from the sky people had been about to throw his silver coin over Lejla.
“It’s good that didn’t happen. Otherwise, we would lose our dear Lejla,” said the old Northuldra man. “She would have had to live with the sky people forever.”
Each Northuldra has a walking stick with the owner's name on it, as well as a signed cup they carry on their belts.
“Listen, you need to return the Northuldra cup back to exactly where you found it. Whoever it belongs to will die if it is not returned.”
People of the Sun's written language is different from the People of the Sky's because the Northuldra write in mirror writing:
Clemet told them that he had tried to read the words on the stick. “No, you couldn’t because this is the Northuldra’s language,” Grandma said to him. “The only way you can read it properly is by looking at it in a mirror.”
“Our beautiful Northuldra daughter. Her song is the cuckoo’s cry that tells that the people of the sun love their daughter so much that they want to give her wings to fly.”
The older Northuldra woman started to sing, and slowly everyone joined her. Together, with their hands touching the shoulder of the person next to them, they formed a ring. “What are they singing?” Clemet asked.
“A blessing song,” Ristin responded.
Ristin got up and spread her arms to encompass the nature all around them. “What do you see?” she asked.
People of the Sky's beliefs:
His people, the Aljel, said that Tinka was a “four-eyed dog.” That meant that she could see more than other dogs—she could even see spirits and warn Clemet when they were near.
Clemet told his name and the history behind it
"I heard a cuckoo sing. He told me to wish three things for myself. The wishes that you wished on the cuckoo were secret – you must not tell them to anyone. But everything came true, my child."
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