Overthinking movies

Okay, so fairly early in The Thirteenth Warrior, the party meets with an old one-eyed man who's survived a Wendol attack. He never gives his name, he never gives his father's name, and you never see him again for the rest of the movie. He basically gives them only the vaguest information - that the Wendol appear to be neither entirely man nor entirely beast, and that the glow-worm comes on misty nights. In fact most of what they seem to get out of that information is being curious enough to stay in place and fight.

My theory is that to fit in with the general storyline, he's actually Aesir and not human at all.