{"id":289,"date":"2026-01-03T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-broken-sword-anderson-poul\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:51","slug":"the-broken-sword-anderson-poul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-broken-sword-anderson-poul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Sword – Anderson, Poul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Orm of Jutland heard the witch prophesy that his firstborn son would be reared in the Halfworld of the Elves, he did not believe there was truth in the curse. But Imric, the cold, clever, heartless elf-earl, for cryptic reasons of his own saw to it that the curse came true. Fathering a son on a female troll held captive in his dungeons, Imric exchanged the nonhuman babe for the true son of Orm the Jutlander.<\/p>\n

Thus, while Valgard the Changeling was raised as Orm\u2019s son in the Lands of Men, the true son of the Jutlander, Skafloc, was reared to manhood in the twilight fields and whispering woods of timeless and shadowy Faerie \u2026<\/p>\n

The author of this extraordinarily imaginative fantasy novel, Poul Anderson, is a tall, curly-headed, owlishly bespectacled and very youthful-looking man in his middle forties.<\/p>\n

Anderson was born in 1926 in Bristol, Pennsylvania, of Danish parentage, which explains his unusual first name. Poul himself pronounces it to sound about halfway between \u201cpole\u201d and \u201cpowl\u201d-but I have<\/p>\n

never met anyone except Poul himself who can quite pronounce it.<\/p>\n

His father was an engineer, and as engineers go wherever they are needed, Poul was raised literally all over the place: in Bristol first, then in Port Arthur, Texas, as well as in Washington, D.C., Copenhagen, Denmark, and on a farm in Minnesota. He now lives in Orinda, California, with his wife, Karen and their teenage daughter, Astrid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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