Thor And Hugh Valland

This is the seventh post this week to have been inspired by Poul Anderson's World Without Stars, Chapter II.

Gods live in us. Hugh Valland, born about 2018 (a very significant year: see also here), is old enough to remember still earlier stories about Thor, who has been mentioned on this blog more often than I had realized.

Valland is also creative enough to compose new stories about Thor. The god will come to help Wenli if asked because he owes Valland a favor:

"'I helped him out once when he got into an argument with an electrostatic generator. Now let me tell you more about him.'" (p. 15)

Valland, a successor of the skalds, then recounts the tale of Thor and the world serpent. All of Poul Anderson's works are set in a single - multiverse.