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#0, Aesir/Vanir and Corwin's Dream Girl
Posted by JeanneHedge on Oct-02-01 at 07:22 PM
In Rose for the New Year, Eris makes the following comment to Zoner:

"The Tenth World is in a mess," Eris told him, "and the Council of the Aesir are still trying to figure out what to do about it. They'll probably end up sticking some poor jerk with going there and finding out as a Trial of Ascension." <remainder snipped>

Later, Corwin and Utena have the following exchange about his parentage:

"No. Literally. She's a -real- goddess. Skuld Ravenhair is the youngest daughter of Odin Winterbeard, the All-Father, ruler of all the Aesir and Vanir. Mom is the Norn of Tomorrow, the Norse goddess of the future. We live on Tomodachi most of the time, but we have a place in the Golden City of Asgard too."

"So... you're... what, a demigod?" asked Utena, showing - feeling! - no indication that she failed to believe what he'd just told her.

"At the moment. I'm being trained for full godhood; in another year or so, I'm not sure exactly when, I'll be called upon to face my Trial. If I succeed, I take a place in the pantheon of the Aesir."

It appears that the Aesir are the Norse pantheon of gods (yes?), but who are the Vanir?


As for Corwin's "dream girl":

"You OK?" asked Utena, concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Corwin replied, wiping his hands down his face. "I'm just a little out of it. I had a really weird dream this morning."

<snippage of Zoners "pickle dream">

"So w-what -was- it ab-b-bout?" Kate asked.

"I... don't really remember," said Corwin, still looking confused. "There was this girl... I dunno who she was. Not really my type, but beautiful, and... " He shook his head. "It's slipping away. I can't remember... "


I'm not going to come right out and say what I suspect is going to happen, because I'm already dropping some pretty big hints. Besides, I've already been told by the author at least once that I was reading more into events in these stories than was intended. However, how much am I pushing it to ask if the girl Corwin describes in his dream has already appeared in SOS, either by name alone, or perhaps physically?


Regards,
Jeanne

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