Djana's Symbols

A Circus Of Hells, CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

Djana sees:

"A hostel at night. Fire leaping red and gold..." (p.302);

the company;

a fiddler;

a woman with "...a sheaf and an infant on her lap." (ibid.);

a black bird at the window.

 

She hears:

 

wind;

the bird's beak rapping on the window.

 

"Theirs was the house of Skjold and Gefion. In England it is told that he - they call him Scyld - drifted to shore in an oarless boat. It was filled with weapons but bore also a sheaf of grain whereon rested the head of the child."

-Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki's Saga (New York, 1973), II, p. 6.

 

See also here and the reference to "Skjold the Sheaf-Child," quoted in Saga And War III.