Having killed once with his newly acquired, short-hafted, iron-headed, heavy hammer, Tjorr decides to keep it as a weapon. Just so.
His people, the Alans, have many tribes between the Dnieper and the Volga and trade with the Greeks on the Black Sea.
Meanwhile, Eodan's stolen ship is about to round Lilybaeum when further dramatic events occur. The action, like the wealth of information about the ancient world, is non-stop as we approach the mid-point of the novel. Having come so far, how far have Eodan and Tjorr yet to go?
In Poul Anderson's The Last Viking Trilogy, Harald Hardrada is doomed to die at Stamford Bridge. In Poul and Karen Anderson's The King Of Ys Tetralogy, Gratillonius will become an obscure legend. Eodan and Tjorr will become gods.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
It does make me wonder, was there originally a merely human king or chieftain like Eodan who, along with Tjorr, were apotheosized as gods after their deaths? Becoming Odin and Thor.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
That seems to be what Snorri thought.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And Snorri Sturluson, whatever his faults were, was a shrewd and discerning writer!
Ad astra! Sean
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