Why does Herbert Ganz say:
"'I should save pity, sense of guilt, for my poor unwitting friends and colleagues, the brothers Grimm.'" (p. 401)?
I have never wondered that before but now it is easy to check Wikipedia. See here. 1858 was ten years after the year of revolutions. The Grimms stand for more than folktales. The overwhelming message of the Time Patrol series is change - in the fourth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries and certainly in the future.
344-347, pp. 404-406.
The Wanderer is asked to name the first son of Tharasmund and Ulrica. When he is told that the name is to be Hathawulf, he stands still for a long time, his hat brim shadowing his face. He has realized how Hathawulf will be elided to Hamther. This is the moment when he understands that the story from the Volsunga Saga is coming true with his own great-grandsons in starring roles:
"'Hamther. He and his brother Sorli died trying to avenge their sister.'" (1934, p. 408)
Doomed indeed.
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1858
Meanwhile in N. America.
The Palliser expedition was the first to go through the area where I live (Calgary, Alberta) & decently map & record the local geography. They found the route through the Rocky Mountains used by the Canadian Pacific Railway about 2 decades later.
The written record is rather short here. Go north to Edmonton or south to the Missouri river & it gets somewhat longer.
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