-Poul Anderson, "Ivory, And Apes, And Peacocks" IN Anderson, Time Patrolman (New York, 1983), pp. 7-115 AT p. 7.
"It was so bright that Eodan could hardly see the man upon that carven seat, except as a robe of Tyrian purple and a golden chaplet."
-Poul Anderson, The Golden Slave (New York, 1980), XV, p. 201.
Eodan becomes Odin and one of Everard's colleagues is identified with Wodan.
The Time Patrol and the Technic History are two main sources of quotations and comparisons in Poul Anderson's works.
That's all for today, folks. There will not be ten posts per day for the rest of this month.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And that mention of King Solomon in his glory reminded me of how Christ said the flowers of the meadow (in spring, I assume) surpassed Solomon in splendor.
And because of how rare and costly purple dyes were, that color became associated with kings and Emperors, esp. the Roman Emperors.
Ad astra!
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