"Since Wayland always turned the same face to Regin, there was continuous daylight for the span of their journey, except at high noon when the planet would eclipse Mimir." (pp. 237-238)
"At noon, darkness came over the whole land..." (Mark 15:33)
"They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night." (Job 5:14)
According to Wikipedia, Arthur Koestler's title (see image) refers to Job, not, as I had thought, to Mark.
Is Anderson's eclipse at high noon on Wayland an obscure Biblical allusion? I don't know.
I was wrong to think that these chapters set on Wayland would be uninteresting.
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