Ragnarok

CRCulver · 04 Mar 1998, 16:34 · from urth-v0007.mbox · original

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From: CRCulver at aol.com
Subject: (urth) Ragnarok
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:34:25
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

Don't know if this has been pointed out already, but:

The story of Master Ash, his house, and Ragnarok is tied very much to Norse
mythology. The house compares with, as someone earlier said, the world-tree
Yggdrasil(sp?). In Norse mythology, it was said that the world would end wh=
en
a dragon eats the sun. In Dr. Talos' Play, the Prophet says a worm devours
the heart of the sun, or something to that effect. "Worm" is an old term for
"dragon" in English.

Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>
http://members.aol.com/crculver/index.html

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