·Direct
North Wind falls upon Ulysses with the other quarter winds, helping raise a tremendous sea.
See evidence text
“Winds from East, South, North, and West fell upon him all at the same time, and a tremendous sea got up”
Character · Individual
North Wind
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- North Wind
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Character
- Scope
- Individual
- Editorial note
- The source gives this named wind agency but does not explicitly call it a god.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
0
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
No presence observations in the processed scope.
Claims
6
·Simile
North Wind joins the other quarter winds in playing battledore and shuttlecock with Ulysses’s raft.
See evidence text
“It was as though the South, North, East, and West winds were all playing battledore and shuttlecock with it at once”
·Direct
Minerva rouses the North Wind as a stiff breeze to lay the waters until Ulysses reaches safety.
See evidence text
“she roused a good stiff breeze from the North that should lay the waters till Ulysses reached the land of the Phaeacians where he would be safe”
·Remembered
The North Wind, raised by Jove, blows as a hurricane that hides land and sky and brings sudden darkness.
See evidence text
“Then Jove raised the North wind against us till it blew a hurricane, so that land and sky were hidden in thick clouds, and night sprang forth out of the heavens.”
·Hypothetical
Circe says the North Wind will carry Ulysses’s ship to the underworld voyage without a guide.
See evidence text
“the North Wind will blow you there of itself”
·Disguised
A gale from the North blows so strongly that people can hardly keep their feet on land.
See evidence text
“a gale blowing from the North so strong that one could hardly keep one’s feet on land.”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
3
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
·Reported
“the North Wind will blow you there of itself”
·Disguised
“with a fair North wind behind us”
·Direct
“shelter from the North wind”