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Overview
Far in the north Glooskap enters the dwelling of a giant identified as Winter. The host gives him a pipe and tells old stories. Frost acts as an enchantment, and the visitor sleeps for six months. After waking, he travels south into increasing warmth and finds dancing little people with Summer as their queen.
He carries Summer away and leaves a long moose-hide cord trailing behind, so her followers pull at it while he escapes. Returning with her to Winter’s lodge, he takes over the conversation. Winter begins sweating and melts away with the dwelling. Grass grows, the little beings emerge and melting snow carries old leaves through the rivers. Glooskap leaves Summer there and returns home. The episode ends with that change; it does not narrate Winter’s subsequent resurrection or an annual cycle in detail.
Origins & earliest records
Leland says Neptune related this poetic account to Mrs. W. Wallace Brown. The story note does not itself specify which Neptune or supply a recording date, so the attribution is kept at that level. His comparison with Ojibwe and Norse material does not establish a shared identity or route of borrowing.
Records & interpretation
Complete selected narrative and attached source notes were inspected. Leland’s editorial comparisons and theories remain separate from the narrated actions.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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The Algonquin Legends of New England
How Glooskap found the Summer; complete relevant narrative and contributor notes.
- 02
The Algonquin Legends of New England — complete Neptune Winter/Summer account
Original work1884; Gutenberg6803 selected transcription, exact source print impression and pages unidentified. Full Preface and Authorities read.
Family & connections
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The Algonquin Legends of New England
Original work1884; Gutenberg6803 selected transcription, exact source print impression and pages unidentified. Full Preface and Authorities read.
- Winter freezes visiting Glooskap into six-month sleep. Glooskap then takes Summer, queen of dancing woodland little ones, and returns north. His power now prevails; Winter sweats and melts, his lodge disappears and growth resumes. Glooskap leaves Summer there. The subsequent Arthur Wentworth Eaton poem is a different literary piece, not an independent narrator’s confirmation.
How Glooskap found the Summer; complete Neptune account and notes, separate Eaton poem identified
No entire volume, independent oral record or separate cited manuscript/comparative edition reviewed. Variant/narrator boundaries preserved; no earliest, medical or diffusion proof claimed.
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- Primary textLeland 1884: How Glooskap found the SummerResearch access: 2026-10-05
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