POVs In "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth"

There are three viewpoint scenarios in Poul Anderson's "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth." (I think.)

(i) Narrative passages set in the fourth century have an omniscient narrator but no viewpoint character with a single exception.

(ii) That exception is the concluding passage which is a third person narrative with Ermanaric as its viewpoint character.

(iii) Every other passage is a first person narrative by a single viewpoint character, Carl Farness.

(i) might seem an odd category but read or reread these passages and you will see what I mean. They express at most a collective viewpoint, e.g.:

"Winter descended..."

-"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," 300-302, p. 362.

Everyone experiences the seasons. Then we are told that this year the seasonal dreariness is lightened for certain thorp dwellers and their neighbours because:

"Carl abode among them." (ibid.)

We are told how this mysterious figure is perceived by the community, not by any single individual.

 In Anderson's A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, Dominic Flandry and Kossara Vymezal alternate as viewpoint characters. However, in the opening passage of Chapter XVI, both are described as perceived by a community of Merseians: they knew her; he was a tall man...

Chapter II of Anderson's War Of The Gods describes interactions between a number of characters without disclosing any individual character's point of view.

The author constructs a narrative. The omniscient narrator narrates.

For more on points of view, see here.