This chapter reminds us that there are human subjects of Merseia and Merseian subjects of Terra. We saw some of both in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, the concluding Captain Flandry instalment, where Flandry and his fiancee join a demonstration of zmayi/ychani, Dennitzans of Merseian descent, which marches not only to but also into the Parliament of Dennitza, an Imperial planet. Poul Anderson's Technic History is almost as complicated as real history.
Brechdan Ironrede had deployed human subjects of the Roidhunate to persuade Erik Magnusson to join their cause. Aycharaych the universal telepath would have been able to confirm that a conversion was genuine. Several plot elements that we have previously encountered converge to explain Olaf Magnusson's Rebellion, a fitting conclusion to the recorded Flandry period of the Technic History.
Shortly, I will set off for the monthly visit to Andrea above the Old Pier Bookshop. Hours of blog silence will ensue.
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