Besides, his spirit double, his Sending or fylgja as the barbarians called it, must return to his body ere dawn, for the sun’s direct light could destroy it. They were no friends, Sendings and sunlight.
You will remember, the black owl said, or whispered, or thought harshly. You will not believe, Sigebert One-ear, Frank, of Metz and now of Nantes… but you will remember, and in my time I will come to you again.
With a horripilating rustle the great fell bird hopped to the window and was gone on spectral wings. Sigebert felt the air stir. The thing’s shadow was an evil splotch that flowed over buildings and dark streets of Nantes. Watchdogs and alley curs across the city cringed and whimpered softly at its passing. None dared bark.
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The Raven“The temporary rescue of Italy entailed the permanent ruin of Gaul. A vast horde of Vandals, Suebi and Alanas, escaping from the central European domination of the Huns, crossed the ill-defended Rhine, and fanned out across the interior provinces, threatening to invade Britain. Italy was powerless to help, and the British proclaimed a native emperor… He crossed to Gaul, and expelled the invaders; but they withdrew the wrong way, not back across the Rhine, but across the Pyrenees into Spain. There most of them stayed. The (Suevi)… descendants still inhabit northwestern Spain; the Vandals passed on, to leave their name in Andalusia, ultimately to found a stable kingdom in what had been Roman Africa.”
– John Morris, The Age of Arthur