Chapter I begins with the goddess, Niaerdh, and is followed by Chapters 1-10.
Chapter II begins with the pantheon, the Anses, and is followed by Chapters 11-19.
Chapter III begins with a man, Gutherius, and is followed by Chapter 20.
Chapter IV begins with the human mother of God, Mary, and ends the novel.
Complicated but worthwhile.
Mary does not appear but is addressed in prayer.
In The Shield Of Time, Guion of the Time Patrol appears only in the brief PARTs ONE, THREE and FIVE in conversation with Manse Everard, then with Wanda Tamberly, then with Everard again, but is absent from the action of the longer PARTs TWO, FOUR and SIX. It might have been good to see this mysterious character in action in a later volume.
The change of focus from the Wanes and Anses to Gutherius is maybe like the change of focus from the Eddas about gods to the Sagas about men. In this post, I meant to focus on Gutherius but got side-tracked onto complicated narrative structures.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
More impatient readers might find the Roman number chapters an annoying distraction from the main theme of story as given in the Arabic numbered chapters. I disagree and argue that the pagan mythologies given in Chapters I to III provides depth and background to the main story, showing us how these people thought.
And I would like to have seen more of Guion!
Ad astra! Sean
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