03080cam a2200409 i 4500 2792099369 TxAuBib 20250624120000.0 r 260519s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781497694224 electronic bk. 1497694221 electronic bk. MWT11556525 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Anderson, Poul William, author. The Broken Sword [Hoopla] / Poul William Anderson. [United States : Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 2014. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (223 pages.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. 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. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla eBook. Science fiction, American Fiction. Legends Fiction. Mythology Fiction. Electronic books. Fantasy fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft Epic fiction. Hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11556525?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh3964 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/opr_9781497694224_180.jpeg Cover image BSBPL