Tasting the blood of Fafnir allowed Sigurd to understand them.
Romulus and Remus were fed by one type of these creatures named Picus. Tasting the blood of Fafnir allowed Sigurd to understand them. The jotun Hraesvelgr took the form of one of them, and Fionnuala and her brothers spent 900 years as a type of them. A Sufi poem sees a "conference" of them cross seven valleys to find Simurgh, and the one representing Ra's soul was called the bennu. One king of them was the son of Kashyap and Vinata, and other myths describe a group of them being scared away from a lake with bronze clappers by Heracles. For 10 points, name these creatures, mythical examples of which include Garuda, the Stymphalian ones, and the phoenix.
Romulus and Remus were fed by one type of these creatures named Picus.
{birds} [accept {woodpeckers} until “{Hraesvelgr}”]