Time And Wind

The Emperor Frederick says, "...if time allows...," not, "...if God allows." Winnithar the Goth proposes to gather as many men as time allows. They say more than they know. Both are in the presence of a Time Patrol agent.

When Carl agrees to help the Goths against a Vandal attack but in his own way:

"Nobody cheered. A sound like the wind passed down the shadowy length of the hall."
-"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," 300-302, p. 368.

The shadowy length is life. The sound that is not the wind is the passage of time. Carl sets in motion a myth that he will have to complete.