Resonances

The opening section of "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" is headed 372 because it is set in that year although it also resonates with some of Anderson's works set in other times and places.

"'...the Huns prowl the marches...'" (p. 337)

- like the barbarians in spaceships just outside the Terran Empire in the Dominic Flandry series.

In fact:

Huns are barbarians;

barbarians, barbari, were so called because, speaking neither of the civilized languages, Greek or Latin, they seemed to be saying, "Bah, bah, bah," babbling;

Flandry thinks, of a barbarian spaceship, "Probably not one aboard knows Anglic!" (Young Flandry, p. 438)

Also in 372, the Wanderer enters the hall. This is a man, indeed a time traveler, mistaken for Wodan. But we remember that that god is a character in some of Anderson's heroic fantasies.

These works seem several surfaces of a single solid.