These chapters are a detective story in which Holger deduces the identity of a werewolf. The werewolf is a link to Operation Chaos where the narrator, Steve Matuchek, is one.
"There must be -
"It blazed in him. 'By the Cross, yes!' he shouted." (p. 93)
This is Holger's first moment of realization.
Alianora refers to Mab. (p. 90) I thought that Mab was just another aspect of Titania, who appears in Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest, but the Wikipedia article shows that her history is more complicated.
Like A Midsummer Tempest, (see A Flag) CHAPTER FOURTEEN discusses heraldry. Sir Yve de Lourville's shield bears:
a wolf's head erased;
sable on barry of six;
gules;
argent.
I might try to google all those heraldic terms some time.
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Kaor, Paul!
And in any COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON, the prefatory comments added by Anderson to the stories and articles in ALL ONE UNIVERSE and GOING FOR INFINITY should be included.
I did look up the heraldic use of "erased," and it should mean in the context of Sir Yve's arms the wolf's head having a jagged or rough edge, to symbolize being torn from its body. All too apt for this two chapter story within the story!
Ad astra! Sean
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