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Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus.
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- According to the Prose Edda, the water of this well is so pure and holy that all things that touch it turn white, including this original pair of swans and all others descended from them.
- In Norse mythology, two swans drink from the sacred Well of Urd in the realm of Asgard, home of the gods.
- Yeats also recounts the myth of Leda and the Swan in the poem of the same name.
- "The Wild Swans at Coole" has a heavy focus on the mesmerising characteristics of the swan.
- Swans are also present in Irish literature in the poetry of W.B. Yeats.
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- The swan has recently been depicted on an Irish commemorative coin.
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- In the legend The Wooing of Etain the king of the Sidhe (subterranean-dwelling, supernatural beings) transforms himself and the most beautiful woman in Ireland, Etain, into swans to escape from the king of Ireland and Ireland's armies.
- In the second century, the Roman poet Juvenal made a sarcastic reference to a good woman being a "rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan" (black swans being completely unknown in the Northern Hemisphere until Dutch explorers reached Australia in the 1600s), from which comes the Latin phrase rara avis (rare bird).
- The god is often depicted riding a chariot pulled by or composed of swans in his ascension from Delos.
- The mute swan is also one of the sacred birds of Apollo, whose associations stem both from the nature of the bird as a symbol of light, as well as the notion of a "swan song".
- Other references in classical literature include the belief that, upon death, the mute swan would sing beautifully—hence the phrase swan song.
- In Greek mythology, the story of Leda and the Swan recounts that Helen of Troy was conceived in a union of Zeus disguised as a swan and Leda, Queen of Sparta.
- Swans feature strongly in mythology.
- also called "swan-brethren" because they used to donate a swan for the yearly banquet.
- The Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, a religious confraternity which existed in 's-Hertogenbosch in the late Middle Ages, had "sworn members",
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- Swans being raised for food were sometimes kept in swan pits.
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- then season it very well with Pepper, Salt and Ginger, then lard it, and put it in a deep Coffin of Rye Paste with store of Butter,
- A recipe for baked swan survives from that time: "To bake a Swan Scald it and take out the bones, and parboil it,
- A recipe for baked swan survives from that time: "To bake a Swan Scald it and take out the bones, and parboil it,
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- Swan meat was regarded as a luxury food in England during the reign of Elizabeth I.
- See Wagner's famous swan-related operas Lohengrin and Parsifal.
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- Swans are often a symbol of love or fidelity because of their long-lasting, apparently monogamous relationships.
- Perhaps the best-known story about a swan is the fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling".
- Many of the cultural aspects refer to the mute swan of Europe.
- See also: Black swan emblems and popular culture, Swan upping, and Swan maiden
- The supposed fossil swans "Cygnus" bilinicus and "Cygnus" herrenthalsi were, respectively, a stork and some large bird of unknown affinity (due to the bad state of preservation of the referred material).
- *Palaelodus steinheimensis Fraas 1870; Anser atavus (Fraas 1870) Lambrecht 1933; Anser cygniformis (Fraas 1870) Lambrecht 1933]*
- †*Cygnus atavus* (Fraas 1870) Mlíkovský 1992 [*Anas atava* Fraas 1870; *Anas cygniformis* Fraas 1870;
- †Cygnus sp. (Pleistocene of Australia)
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- †Cygnus lacustris (De Vis 1905) [Archaeocycnus lacustris De Vis 1905] (Late Pleistocene of the Lake Eyre region, Australia)
- Cygnus (Olor) equitum Bate 1916 sensu Northcote 1988a] (Middle – Late Pleistocene of Malta and Sicily, Mediterranean)
- †Dwarf swan (Cygnus equitum) Bate 1916 sensu Livezey 1997 [Anser equitum (Bate 1916) Brodkorb 1964;
- †Cygnus paloregonus Cope 1878 [Anser condoni Schufeldt 1892; Cygnus matthewi Schufeldt 1913] (Middle Pleistocene of west-central U.S.)
- *Palaeocygnus falconeri* (Parker 1865)
- †Giant swan (Cygnus falconeri) Parker 1865 sensu Livezey 1997a [Cygnus melitensis Falconer 1868;
- †*Cygnus* sp. Louchart *et al*. 1998 (Early Pleistocene of Dursunlu, Turkey)
- †*Cygnus hibbardi* Brodkorb 1958 (?Early Pleistocene of Idaho, U.S.)