The Ice Palace â€� Reader Q&A

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What significance are the birds and the woodwinds in Ice Palace?

Signe The bird is the immortal all seeing eye, perhaps the eye that Unn sees as life passes from her, but once drawn in by the Ice Palace

He could not leave

â€¦m´Ç°ù±ðThe bird is the immortal all seeing eye, perhaps the eye that Unn sees as life passes from her, but once drawn in by the Ice Palace

He could not leave the spot. Nor could he pounce, or settle - only slice past the ice wall like a dark puff of wind. The next minute far away on the horizon or spiralling upwards; the next moment past the ice wall again at the same point. he was no longer a completely unfettered bird with steel claws and accompanying wind. He was bound fast here, the prisoner of his own freedom, unable to give up. What he saw confused him

Both Siss and the bird seem to be equally trapped by the Ice Palace. This passage, located where it is, indicates a shift is about to occur in Siss.

We are woodwind players, enchanted by things we cannot resist.

The woodwind players help Siss to leave her promise, her gift, her grief and return to life and community. The woodwind players play by the side of the road and dispel fear and grief. (less)

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