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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Deserves its acclaim as a fantasy masterpiece. I love Anderson’s maximalist language and narration style, it makes the story fittingly feel like an Anglo-Saxon epic. The fantasy elements are wide and wild co-mingling many mythologies and many tropes from ancient epics. My biggest hesitation comes from the melodrama that the writing descends to at some points but overall it’s a well-paced, action-packed story that deserves more readers. En una tierra en la que el reino de Faerie existe en una dimensión paralela a la del mundo de los hombres, Skafloc, el ahijado de los elfos, habrá de liberar la terrible maldición que pesa sobre Tyrfing, la poderosa espada rúnica que rompió Thor y que ahora vuelve a ser necesaria para salvar a los elfos en su guerra contra los trolls. Pero Skafloc también habrá de enfrentarse a su propia sombra: Valgard, que ha ocupado su lugar en el mundo de los hombres. Considerada como un clásico de la fantasía heroica. Flott frásögn sem byggir á norrænum goðsögnum. Ungbarn er hrifsað úr örmum móður sinnar af álfi sem setur í staðinn fyrir barnið Changeling sem síðan elst upp í hans stað. Síðar eiga þeir eftir að takast á í örlagabaráttu góðs og ills. Handan mannheima eiga álfar og tröll í hatrammri baráttu og "bræðurnir" eiga efitir að skipa sér í fylkingarbrjóst andstæðra afla. Að baki baráttunni eru þó ókunn öfl, guðir, örlög, bölvun og dæmd ást sem gerir baráttuna dæmda frá upphafi. Poul Anderson er margverðlaunaður rithöfundur og þetta var ein hans fyrsta saga sem sömuleiðis er fantafín. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic. 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. Along with such notables as Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Poul Anderson is considered one of the masters of speculative fiction. This edition contains the author's original text. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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non è un brutto libro ma non mi interessa abbastanza da superare il disagio di uno stile antiquato (second metà anni 50) ( )