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Thor’s Son

Part of Thor’s Son

StateTitled draftSurviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1Catalogue rolePrimary / default
Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Characters in this exact text

Exhaustively reviewed for this catalogued Poetry state. Generic lyric speakers/addressees, collectives, places and purely metaphorical allusions are not manufactured into permanent Characters.

Asgrim Snorri’s sonAsgrim, Snorri’s son — Viking leader followed by the speaker of “Thor’s Son”On Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 295GaldjerhrunGaldjerhrun — enemy who sank Asgrim’s ship off Skagerack in “Thor’s Son”Mentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 295HrothgarHrothgar — hard-eyed warrior in “Thor’s Son”; distinct from the three existing Hrothgar identitiesMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 295steersmanthe steersman in Thor’s Son — Viking steersman and first-person narrator of Thor’s SonOn Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 295masterthe steersman’s master — unnamed eastern master killed by the enslaved steersmanOn Page2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 295

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Original Howard typescript — TSS 51819Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessComplete

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 51819

Original Typescript (OT) source code; retained as an original Howard typescript witness.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 238

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

These records describe how this textual state is known or represented. A witness may be authorial, editorially mediated, restored, transcribed or otherwise derived without becoming a new Howard-authored textual state.

Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 295Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 1 p. 295

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The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗