The Broken Sword (Audiobook)

from Karlstar

This is very different from Anderson's other classic fantasy, Three Hearts and Three Lions. It is set in an Earth that might have been, heavily drawn from Norse mythology. It is more than a bit dark, featuring the gods at their most vengeful. It actually took me quite a while to get warmed up to ...

from themulhern

Apparently published in the same year as Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings". Plenty of elves, trolls, dwarves, etc, but very little interest in language. I would have loved this book as a sixteen year old; the amoral and immortal elves would have seemed quite the thing.

from JaneAnneShaw

Dark fantasy based in the Norse sagas - recommended by Richard Morgan ~ & he was right! However, Anderson's style does mix 'n' match various saga conventions, & at times can read like Kipling's 'Puck of Pook's Hill' crossed with Elizabeth A. Lynn's 'Dragon's Winter'. At least it isn't a pastiche ...

from Karlstar

This is very different from Anderson's other classic fantasy, Three Hearts and Three Lions. It is set in an Earth that might have been, heavily drawn from Norse mythology. It is more than a bit dark, featuring the gods at their most vengeful. It actually took me quite a while to get warmed up to ...

from salimbol

An engaging mishmash of Norse and Celtic legends (written at about the same time as the Lord of the Rings, and drawing on much of the same source material), which definitely captures some of the feel of the old sagas, with flashes of quite poetic prose, the brooding feeling of a world swirling to...