![]() ![]() This isn’t just a tale of vikings and farmers, though. It starts in classic saga style with a viking called Orm settling on land in England, largely by means of slaughtering the land’s former occupants, following King Alfred’s victory over the Danes. ![]() Anderson was fascinated by the lays and sagas of his Scandinavian heritage, and The Broken Sword is saturated in this tradition. Most of his output was science fiction, but he also published a number of fantasy and historical novels, including The Broken Sword, which contains historical elements along with the predominant fantasy. ![]() His wife Karen co-authored a number of his later works, and their daughter Astrid is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. He gained a physics degree from the University of Minnesota, but worked as a freelance writer for the rest of his life. No, not that one – this is The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson.Īnderson was born in 1926 in Pennsylvania, of Scandinavian descent, and grew up in Texas, Denmark and Minnesota. I’m writing this time about an epic fantasy novel first published in 1954, featuring a desperate quest, a great war between the forces of light and dark, and a legendary broken sword reforged. ![]()
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