Mirkheim, Chapter XIX

(i) The captain and officers of the Hermetian flagship, Chronos, see Nicholas van Rijn, the living legend, in the flesh. We have read the stories that made him a legend.

(ii) Sandra Tamarin sees that he is old as Coya Conyon had done eighteen years previously.

(iii) However, he is old but energetic, refusing to be pitiable.

(iv) From the wardroom (see also here), we are given another view of the "...billionfold Milky Way..." (Chapter XIX, p. 255) (For full reference, see here.) See also The Milky Way Thread.

(v) There will probably be more from this chapter but not tonight. Poul Anderson's texts are an inexhaustible well.