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5: Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling:
i: the eponymous traitor,
ii: then Merrill's famed fisherman partner
iii: and a misplaced cygnet,
iv: contrasting with a little anser,
v: thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,
vi: while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,
vii: and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport
viii: and try to catch a little trout
ix: or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative
x: before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

spoilers: i is vidkun quisling of norway (its collaborating under the nazis, hence a "quisling"); iii is hans christian andersen's ugly duckling, of denmark -- can't work out the overall idea though (ie what "unravel" might mean)

??? (from wiki)

Date: 2009-01-05 11:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
"The Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula was a Flemish painter active in the fifteenth century. His name is derived from a polyptych depicting scenes from the life of Saint Ursula painted for the convent of the Black Sisters of Bruges; the city appears in the background of a number of the paintings, in which the belfry and tower of the Church of Notre-Dame. Consequently it is possible, given the stages of construction of the belfry, to determine that the altarpiece was painted either before 1483 or somewhere between 1493 and 1499. Today the panels have been dispersed to a number of museums around the world."

Re: ??? (from wiki) iv

Date: 2009-01-05 11:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
Anser appears to be a genus of goose related birds with the smallest being Ross's Goose. um, "ing"...

Re: ??? (from wiki) iv

Date: 2009-01-05 11:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
i must consult dr vick's DUCK BOOK (pub.just b4 xmas)

Re: ??? (from wiki) iv

Date: 2009-01-05 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
groan, GOSLING! would be a little goose innit.

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