When Carl approaches:
"At first, spying him at a mile's reach, they took him for a mere gangrel, since he fared alone and afoot." (p. 348)
A gangrel - or Gangleri?
In 372, the Wanderer, addressing Alawin, referred to:
"'...that kindred which sprang from your father's father's mother Jorith...and myself.'" (p. 340)
At the end of the chapter headed 300, Carl, the Wanderer, first meets the maiden, Jorith. (p. 350)
Seventy two years of family chronicle link these chapters. In 372, Alawin's father, Hathawulf, is present and we are told that, five years previously, he had inherited tribal leadership from his father, Tharasmund. Thus, we already know the line of descent from Carl, believed to be Wodan.
In 1980, pp. 351-362, Carl Farness, newly graduated from the Time Patrol Academy, is interviewed about his proposed first assignment by Unattached agent, Manse Everard. A family saga among the Goths was a routine work assignment for a Time Patrolman.
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There's the bit where "Wodan" sighs that Swanhild looks like her great-great-grandmother Jorith, and Swanhild's father, though a hardened warrior, shivers as he hears it.
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