He Died

"Time Patrol," 5.

Wulfnoth describes the stranger hight Stane whom Everard and Whitcomb know to have been a time traveler:

"'None dared cross him, for he had a wand which threw thunderbolts and had been seen to cleave rocks and once, in battle with the Britons, burn men down. There are those who thought he was Woden, but that cannot be since he died.'" (p. 33)

But there are still those who think this? Gods can die. Woden will die. Some dead gods return. Or maybe Wulfnoth just means that Woden is believed/known to be still alive and active so cannot have died in these parts recently? We are not looking at a single, coherent world-view here.

Warriors die and go to Valhalla. In Valhalla, they fight, die and rise again. But, at the Ragnarok, they will die a final time. No one philosophized about religious beliefs yet.

I think that I have previously quoted a Catholic curate in an Irish country parish who said that the locals simultaneously believed three mutually incompatible propositions about death:

what the Church teaches;
the pre-Christian belief that the dead linger in an underworld where they resent, and from where they might harm, the living;
the dead no longer exist.