The heroes include warriors and minstrels, merchants and vagabonds, but also such fantastic symbols of nature as dragons and mermaids.
The mermaid has a long history in western civilisation.
She is identifying with a death-bound mermaid caught at the point of metamorphosis who offers a brief opportunity to recover the lyric potential of poetry.
It is, for example, easy to see from the orca simulation why legends would develop that described the mermaid as ver y white with black hair.
He claimed that the mermaids and men-fish were known for their loud whooping noises, as if they had the power to raise the storms with which they were associated.
He admires the scene in which a mermaid smiles peculiarly as she takes hold of the sinking body of a naked young man who plummets to the sea-bed.
Any fisherman knows that in deep water one finds not only mermaids but sharks.
It would be difficult for them to live to the south unless they were mermaids.
