This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "The Ballad of the Unconquered Hero." In this poem, the hero is fighting with his arch-rival, the ice warrior, in order to win a prize. The ice warrior is trying to steal the treasure that the hero has given him, but the hero will not let him take it. He will send the hero to his grave, where he will be buried in the company of the "holy master," the god of the sun.
This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, entitled "The Ballad of the Unconquered Hero." In this poem, the hero is fighting with his arch-rival, the ice warrior, in order to win a prize. The ice warrior is trying to steal the treasure that the hero has given him, but the hero will not let him take it. He will send the hero to his grave, where he will be buried in the company of the "holy master," the god of the sun.