In which god should we place our trust? Skafloc tells us!:
"'A true friend is Mananaan. He is the only god I would trust.'" (XXVI, p. 189)
Freda winds up with Mananaan. Asking Christ to forgive her because she loves Skafloc more than Him, she goes to seek Skafloc and Mananaan sees to her welfare after Skafloc's death.
Odin speaks the sequel that Poul Anderson never wrote:
"'Skafloc must fall, and this child whom I wove my web to have begotten and given to me must one day take up the sword and bear it to the end of its weird.'" (XXVI, p. 196)
Such an early work implying such an obvious sequel - that was never written.
It is getting late here.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, but even the 1954 text of THE BROKEN SWORD states more than once that Mananaan and the other Sidhe were only half "gods" by then. Iow, fading away. And I certainly don't believe the Sidhe and Aesir are actual beings.
Ad astra! Sean
Well. of course they're not actual!
Kaor, Paul!
I've also thought that one way of rationalizing why Anderson never wrote a sequel to THE BROKEN SWORD was because Odin's plots were thwarted, making a sequel unnecessary.
Ad astra! Sean
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