(i) one might be something else;
(ii) two crow in different worlds on the same morning;
(iii) the fourth I have read about only in a work by Anderson.
(i) A cock crows after Peter denies Christ but would a cock have crowed in the city center or was it a Roman morning trumpet blast called "cockcrow"?
(ii) On Ragnarok morning:
"'Away in Jotunheim the red cock Fialar crows loudly; and another cock with golden crest crows over Asgard.'"
-Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales Of Asgard (Puffin/Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1960), p. 250.
It seems a shame not to continue quoting this account:
"'Then all bonds are loosened: the Fenris Wolf breaks free; the sea gushes over the land as Jormungand the Midgard Serpent swims ashore. Then the ship Naglfar is loosened: it is made of dead men's nails...Fenris advances with open mouth, and Jormungand blows venom over sea and air...
"'Then the sky splits open and the Sons of Muspell come in fire: Surtur leads them with his flaming sword, and when they ride over Bifrost the Bridge breaks behind them and falls in pieces to the earth.'" (pp. 250-251)
Armageddon writ large.
(iii) In Anderson's War Of The Gods, when a mysterious supernatural woman kills a cock and throws its severed body over an impassable underworld wall, it is heard to crow on the other side...
Make of that what you can. It reads like a surreal dream.
Addendum: Voluspa has three cocks crowing before the Ragnarok.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Interesting! That the "cock" heard by St. Peter was a Roman musical instrument used by the Legions. I had thought, along with almost everybody else, that it was the BIRD Peter heard.
Sean
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