In the clouds, Svoboda and Coffin are attacked by two giant spearfowl but kill them with their pistols:
"Two huge forms trailed blood down through the clouds." (p. 130)
Never short of a Biblical phrase, Coffin comments:
"'Oh, God...it was like a monster out of Revelation....'" (p. 131)
Before that, Svoboda had made a comparison from another set of "scriptures":
"Ahead of him the drenched, rock-littered ground came to an end, nothing but mist to be seen, as if he stood on the edge of Ginnungagap." (p. 128)
Ginnungagap features in Poul Anderson's works and on this blog. It is mentioned in the first Technic History installment, "The Saturn Game," and is the name given to a cosmic collision in James Blish's Cities In Flight.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I have read the Elder Edda, but I admit not being as familiar with "Ginnungagap" as I really should have been.
Ad astra! Sean
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