Jenn dangled into the other world.
The woman before him had never known any other world but her own.
Considered as holy wars the Crusades must be interpreted by the ideas of an age which was dominated by the spirit of otherworldliness, and accordingly ruled by the clerical power which represented the other world.
One can readily understand the popularity of the Crusades, when one reflects that they permitted men to get to the other world by fighting hard on earth, and allowed them to gain the fruits of asceticism by the ways of hedonism.
Their function of snatching away mortals to the other world brings them into connexion with the Erinyes, with whom they are often confounded.