Following the Wanderer's advice - Carl is still interfering -, Alawin burns Hathawulf's hall so that Ermanaric will not possess it, then leads a group including his mother and Hathawulf''s widow and son west where he is baptized. He lives a long life in the Gothic kingdom in southern Gaul and his descendants are among the founders of Spain. Carl must have done a lot of temporal snooping to learn all of that. Weakened by Ermanaric's civil strife, the East Goths can no longer withstand the Huns although they will eventually take over in Italy.
Carl will continue to record stories and songs but will no longer become personally involved. And there this story ends at last. Is it the most substantial of the Time Patrol instalments?
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He not only recorded the Gothic stories and songs; he's the -source- of some of them, and affects their conception of Wotan.
Kaor, Paul!
To be whimsical I've wondered some of Alawin's descendants could be ancestral to any Spanish aristocratic families claiming Visigothic descent.
Ad astra! Sean
By now, pretty much everyone in Spain except recent immigrants is at least partly descended from Visigoths. Aristocrats get around...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I should have thought of that. (Smiles)
Ad astra! Sean
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