Two more passages in Chapter XXIV:
"...the memory of Skafloc was becoming a summer that was past, recalled in a new year." (p. 179)
The narrative has combined the passage of the seasons with the feelings of the characters. Now, a past season becomes an analogy for a changed feeling. Both the text and the analogy continue:
"He warmed her heart without searing it, and her longing for him was like a still tarn whereon sun-glints had begun to dance." (ibid.)
A longing that has become still and is like dancing light - has ceased to be a longing.
Over the page:
"There came an evening when they two stood on the shore, the waters murmurous at their feet and the sunset red and gold behind them." (p. 180)
They two are Freda and her new suitor, Audun. He proposes and she accepts. But an elemental, non-human viewpoint would focus on summers and sunsets and not on human relationships!
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