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January 2015
On Sale: December 30, 2014
ISBN: 1497694221
EAN: 9781497694224
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Fantasy
The son of a Norse warlord, kidnapped at birth and raised by
elves, and the bitter changeling who replaced him clash in a
monumental war of trolls, elves, and man in this acclaimed
classic of fantasy fiction Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul
Anderson’s novel The Broken Sword draws on similar
Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources. In his greed for land
and power, Orm the Strong slays the family of a Saxon
witch—and for his sins, the Northman must pay with his
newborn son. Stolen by elves and replaced by a changeling,
Skafloc is raised to manhood unaware of his true heritage
and treasured for his ability to handle the iron that the
elven dare not touch. Meanwhile, the being who supplanted
him as Orm’s son grows up angry and embittered by the
humanity he has been denied. A pawn in a witch’s vengeance,
the creature Valgard will never know love, and consumed by
rage, he will commit a murderous act of unspeakable vileness.
It is their destiny to finally meet on the field of
battle—the man-elf and his dark twin, the monster—when the
long-simmering war between elves and trolls finally erupts
with a devastating fury. And only the mighty sword Tyrfing,
broken by Thor and presented to Skafloc in infancy, can turn
the tide in a terrible clashing of faerie folk that will
ultimately determine the fate of the old gods.
Considered one of the masters of golden-age speculative
fiction, along with such notables as Isaac Asimov, Ray
Bradbury, and Robert Heinlein, multiple Hugo and Nebula
Award winner Poul Anderson proved himself equally adept at
creating epic fantasy with The Broken Sword, a masterful
tale of men, elves, and gods that is at once breathtakingly
exciting and heartbreakingly tragic.
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