The Past In The Time Patrol Series: Various Years

"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth."

1935

New York, autumn. Not many cars. Roast-chestnut carts. A large apartment overlooking Central Park where it is safe to stroll in the evening. A doorman who need not also be an armed guard.

300

The Vistula, winter, when almost no one travels and strangers are welcomed. The chief wants to see even a gangrel. 

1890s

Everard, based in New York, 1980, changes clothes because he knows of a good free lunch in a local saloon.

1980

New York, winter. Snow tumbling past the window makes Everard's apartment a white cave.

337

Goth infantry withstand Hun horse. Arrows darken the sky. Banners stream. Earth shakes. Weapons gleam. Bows twang. Sling-stones fly. Horns bray. Goths win. Their leader dies.

1858

Berlin, summer twilight on Unter den Linden. Fragrant trees, horse-drawn vehicles, tall hats, Prussian officers, a nightingale in a rose garden, a spacious house full of books and bric-a-brac where a maid in a black dress with white cap and apron serves coffee, cakes and cognac.

1934

New York, December, cold, dark, Salvation Army, Santa Clauses, Depression.

1935

New York, March, a walk in Central Park.

372

Goths, rain, wind, an end.

43

Hawaii before the Polynesians, quicksilver sea, the evening star above Mauna Kea, peace.

A time traveller goes back and forth. Poul Anderson goes way beyond Wells' original concept.