The Broken Sword
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:14th Aug '14
Should be back in stock very soon
Poul Anderson's stunningly powerful Norse dark fantasy.
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 ... But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves, who are heavily involved in their war against the trolls, and only Skafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade the mighty ice-giant, Bolverk, to make the sword Thor broke whole again. But things are never easy, and along the way Skafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling, who took his place in the world of men.
A superb dark fantasy of the highest, and most Norse, order. THE BROKEN SWORD is a fantasy masterpiece.
It has a wonderful, wild, manic originality, a driving story and a genuine feel of the grim realities informing Anglo-Saxon myth and legend which few other fantasies possess
Fantasy of harsh truth and driving narrative, imbued with the energy and the wild beauty of the old Norse talesThe young Anderson taps the authentic vein of Norse myth, but, like Tolkien, recreates it in his own unique style ... exciting readingISBN: 9781473205444
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
Weight: 240g
256 pages