300-302

"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," 300-302, pp. 362-374.

This chapter describes the events of two years but also mentions their longer term consequences:

"These stories faded away in the course of the following lifetime or two... What mattered was that for a half-score years, the Goths along the upper Vistula knew peace." (p. 369)

Seventy four years of Gothic history stretch ahead of us. The opening chapter was 372 and the concluding chapter is 374, ending with the death of Ermanaric. After 300-302, there is an interlude in 2319, then a chapter covering the longer period, 302-330. Thus, that chapter carries the narrative well beyond the half-score years of peace gained by Carl's intervention against the Vandals. The shape of the narrative is shown by the full list of chapters:

372

1935

300

1980

300-302

2319

302-330

1980

337

1933

337-344

1858

344-347

1934

348-366

1935

366-372

1935

372

1935

372

43

374

More time passes in the fourth century than in the twentieth. There are also excursions to 43, 1858 and 2319.