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The Broken Sword is a fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, originally published in 1954.

The Broken Sword is a fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, originally published in 1954. The original text was returned to print by Gollancz in 2002. The book tells the story of Skafloc, elven-fosterling and originally son of Orm the Strong. The story begins with the marriage of Orm the Strong and Aelfrida of the English

Published in 1954, Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword is one of the forgotten giants of early modern fantasy. The book remains an astounding influence of several important writers in the genre.

Published in 1954, Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword is one of the forgotten giants of early modern fantasy.

Freda did not weep, but she felt the unshed tears thick in her throat. You think this is dawn for us, she said once, the second day. I tell you it is night. He looked at her, puzzled ean you?. The sword is full of wickedness. The deed we go to do is wrong. No good can come of i. .He laid his hands on her shoulders. I understand you do not like making your kin travel the troublous road, he said. Nor do I. Yet who else among the dead will help and not harm us? Stay here, Freda, if you cannot bear it.

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The Broken Sword Poul Anderson Foreword Late in the year of Our Lord 1018, Sighvat Thordarson fared through Gotaland on an errand for King Olaf of Norway. Most folk thereabouts still worshipped in the old way. The wife at one lonely steading would not let him and his friends spend the night because an Aljarblot was being readied. Any well-brought-up man in those days could make a stave at any time; and Sighvat was a skald. Читать онлайн The Broken Sword. Late in the year of Our Lord 1018, Sighvat Thordarson fared through Gotaland on an errand for King Olaf of Norway.

'Poul Anderson's classic fantasy, The Broken Sword, knocks The Fellowship of the Ring into a cocked ha. ' . Back in 1954, Poul Anderson released his novel The Broken Sword. ' - -Guardian (UK). Not many have heard of it because a little book came out that year took all the spotligh. ome book called The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Poul Anderson's classic fantasy, The Broken Sword, knocks The Fellowship of the Ring into a cocked hat, says . Two similar books were published in 1954. The first, in the US, was Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword. The second, in the UK, was JRR Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring.

Poul Anderson's classic fantasy, The Broken Sword, knocks The Fellowship of the Ring into a cocked hat, says Michael Moorcock. Both these romances drew on familiar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources, but Anderson's was somewhat closer to its origins, a fast-paced doom-drenched tragedy in which human heroism, love and ambition, manipulated by amoral gods, elves and trolls, led inevitably to tragic consequences.

The Broken Sword Fantasy Masterworks: Book 32 . The sword Tyrfing has been broken to prevent it striking at the roots of Yggdrasil, the great tree that binds earth, heaven and hell together. Three Hearts and Three Lions Fantasy Masterworks: Book 40 .

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Poul Anderson here tells a wonderful tale, full of magic, adventure and peril. The Broken Sword is a beautifully told, violent and epic, fantasy story

Poul Anderson here tells a wonderful tale, full of magic, adventure and peril. It blazes forth at a blistering pace, yet still manages to include sufficient characterization. The Broken Sword is a beautifully told, violent and epic, fantasy story. Set in a Norse/ Scandinavian Myth landscape, with Elves and Dwarves etc; The Broken Sword draws upon similar caricatures as Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.

The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson. Most critics characterize The Broken Sword as an homage to the Northern thing, as W. H. Auden called his own fascination with the Icelandic sagas and Norse Eddas. A character named Audun actually appears in the novel. Introduction by Michael Dirda. Perhaps the finest American heroic fantasy-so E. F. Bleiler, the great scholar of supernatural and fantasy literature, summed up The Broken Sword. But this simple label isn’t quite right. Yes, overall the book may be, to borrow Tolkien’s words about Beowulf, a drink dark and bitter; a solemn funeral-ale with the taste of death.