The Oneness Of Time

"The Pirate."

In the Dordogne country -

Braganza Diane lives in an internally renovated medieval stone house built against an overhanging cliff;

in front of her house, bushes cover:

"...a site excavated centuries ago, where flint-working reindeer hunters lived for millennia while the glaciers covered North Europe." (p. 212);

every day, the Greenland-Algeria carrier flies overhead;

every night, spaceships visibly lift towards the stars where men now travel.

A future history series shares our past history which can be shown sometimes. In this passage, Poul Anderson lays on multiple layers of time:

"Middle Ages"

"ancientness"

"centuries ago"

"millennia"

"glaciers"

"daily"

"at night"

And to sum all this up:

"In few other parts of the planet could you be more fully in the oneness of time." (ibid.)

That sums up Poul Anderson's works also.