# Spring — Fifty-One Tales character guide

> Spring in Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0029-spring-in-town

## Snapshot

She walks on daisies into a winter-held town and, with whispers and songs, quietly undoes everything the frost had claimed.

## Who they are

Spring arrives to find Winter huddled inglorious at a street corner and simply says, 'Begone'—then sets about the city he abandoned. She sings a dejected dog into gambolling, whispers to trees until green buds peep out like stars, wakes the maternal earth into crocus and grass, and tells the air to be joyous. Buttonholes appear on young men's coats; children discover daisies in unfrequented corners. Her work is small, patient, and complete, and it matters because it shows what gentleness can do that force cannot.

## Relationships

### [Winter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/characters/winter)

_rivalry_

Spring and Winter are seasonal opposites, locked in an eternal struggle for dominance over the land.

### [Winter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/characters/winter)

_rivalry_

Spring and Winter are seasonal opposites, locked in an eternal struggle for dominance over the land.

## In the story

### [The Hen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-hen)

Spring appears after winter, marking the swallows' return.

### [The Dream of King Karna-Vootra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-dream-of-king-karna-vootra)

Spring is mentioned as the season in which the king invites Vava-Nyria to come with him.

### [Spring in Town](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/spring-in-town)

Approaches walking on daisies, commands Winter to leave, and then revitalizes the town by awakening trees, flowers, and joy in people.

### [The Song of the Blackbird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fifty_one_tales_se/chapters/the-song-of-the-blackbird)

Referenced as the season when the blackbird's song was created.

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