"The ship landed him at Brindisi..." (p. 331)
That reminded me of something:
"'...interstellar liner Brindisi...'"
-James Blish, The Quincunx Of Time (New York, 1973), CHAPTER ONE, p. 32.
In Blish's Cities In Flight, the Mayor of New York is John Amalfi. This was Blish's acknowledgment of the contribution of Italian Americans to the governance of New York.
"'I fear the Empire will be troubled for a long time to come.'
"Till Frederick Barbarossa at last restores order, Everard knew."
-The Shield Of Time, p. 332.
That also reminded me of something:
"'Not many exceptions to the law of death have come my way,' observed MacPhee.
"'And how,' said Grace with much emphasis, 'how should you expect to be there on more than one such occasion? Were you a friend of Arthur's or Barbarossa's? Did you know Enoch or Elijah?'"
-CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength IN Lewis, The Cosmic Trilogy (London, 1990), pp. 349-753 AT CHAPTER 17, 4, p. 738.
Lewis' trilogy is set in a timeline where all these guys are still alive:
"'For Arthur did not die; but Our Lord took him to be in the body until the end of time and the shattering of Sulva, with Enoch and Elias and Moses and Melchisedec the King.'"
-The Hideous Strength, CHAPTER 13, 1, p. 635.
And, of course, Poul Anderson matches all of these with Holger Danske.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Mention was made of how Holger Danske did become old during his "first" lifespan, in the Carolingian universe of THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS. But Morgan Le Fay, who in her owe way loved him, restored youth to him on Avalon.
Ad astra! Sean
DANG. That should be "own," not "owe." Sean
There's a joking story about Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders lying in enchanted sleep under Mount Rushmore, waiting to return at the time of America's peril.
I can imagine circumstances -- post-apocalyptic ones, for example -- under which people would really start to believe that.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling! I agree, because we have real world legends, with that basic idea, about King Arthur, Holger Danske, Frederick Barbarossa, etc. Ad astra! Sean
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