Saturday, 23 July 2022

A Longer Narrative

"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth."

The Time Patrol series is transformed: a longer narrative with a wider cast of characters.

Speaking Parts In 372, pp. 333-341
Hathawulf
Solbern
Ulrica
Alawin
Liuderis
the Wanderer (we have not yet been told that he is a time traveller)

Also Mentioned
Tharasmund
Erelieva
Randwar
Swanhild
Ermanaric
Jorith

We are told something of the relationships between these characters and will learn more. No mention of Manse Everard as yet.

I think that imagination is essential to humanity and that gods have been powerful in the collective imagination but do not literally exist. I welcome narratives that give the gods a major but not ultimate role:

"'That is as Weard wills, who sets the doom of gods and men alike." (p. 338)

The Buddha is a teacher of gods and men.

1 comment:

S.M. Stirling said...

Note that the Germanic Gods are also unaging -- but can be destroyed, and at the "Weird of the World", they will be.