Vǫlundr gets a sequel.
After all the turns of fate & adversity suffered by master smith Volundr, one has to ask what happens after he fashions wings and flies away out of the Völundarkviða 's narrative after wreaking his creative vengeance on his petty king captor? To answer this question, brilliant Columbian novelist Gabriel García Márquez wrote a short story in 1968 CE called A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings that NorsePlays at least one episode of where a millennium aged Volundr lands much, much later. [the 10th-century CE winged figure from Uppåkra, Sweden, a copper alloy mount thought to represent Volundr in flight.] The telling is subtle in identifying Volundr, relaying with hints who he is, and at the same time misdirecting by using Latino/Catholic-based contexts that the people surrounding him have to frame him by, which is really brilliant & clever and keeps this identity secret while having it in plain sight if you know this story from the Norse Lore. It f...