The goddess Niaerdh to the god Frae:
"Your gift to me shall be the bull that you are riding.'" (I, p. 468)
A horned thing appears before Veleda:
"...it was the bull of Frae, cast in iron, and on it rode the goddess who had claimed it from him." (17, p. 611)
It is a Time Patrol timecycle and on it rides Janne Floris, Specialist Patrol agent, just as Patrol scholar Carl Farness had appeared as Woden to warring Goths.
Poul Anderson seamlessly blends mythology and sf, as also history and sf. We learn more by rereading Anderson than by reading many others.
Ave Stella Maris!
2 comments:
Note that the proto-Germanics just don't have any non-mythological vocabulary to describe what they're seeing.
Kaor,. Mr,. Stirling!
That kind of language had to be worked out by the Greek philosophers and the Jews and Christians.\
Ad astra! Sean
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