Novella
The Sorrow of Odin the Goth
- by Poul Anderson
- in Time Patrolman (Tor, October 1983)
Patrolman Carl Farnass is more of a story-gatherer and histornian than a time cop, and unlike most patrolmen, he takes a wife in the time of the Goths and takes a godlike interest in his children and their descendants. —Michael Main
But I did not, repeat not establish a new god; I merely fitted an image they’d long worshipped, and in the course of time, a generation or so, they came to assume I must be him.
