The Curse of Slagfid by Elizabeth H. Boyer

JD has done a prety good job of summing up a number of works there but if I may add one or two more.įletcher Pratt and L Sprague DeCamp's hilarious InComplete Enchater about a man who makes mathematical miscalucations to end up in unexpoected places. (Although you should be warned that Howard took the side of the Celts in any clash between the two.) Howard's stories also make heavy use of this sort of material: 'The Grey God Passes', for example, or 'The Cairn on the Headland' - most of his stories of this type were collected in a couple of older paperbacks, Marchers of Valhalla and Skull-Face (the first volume of the Panther paperback reprint of The Skull-Face Omnibus, not the Berkley paperback). Rider Haggard used Norse settings and themes for his Eric Brighteyes and The Wanderer's Necklace. Eddison (of The Worm Ouroboros and the Zimiamvia trilogy fame) also did one titled Styrbiorn the Strong William Morris did some tales of this sort, as well, with The House of the Wulfings and At the Roots of the Mountains, based (at least in great part) on tales from the Elder Edda, while H. And time was running out:- (original cost £3.99).And there's a heavily Norse quality to some of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories, especially those collected into Swords & Ice Magic, such as 'Rime Isle', though these also draw on various other milieus, and are adapted to Leiber's own Nehwon.īut for straightforward Norse fantasy, Anderson himself did a few others, as well, including Hrolf Kraki's Saga and The Merman's Children. Not all Thurid's magic could find a key to the mystery, but already Thurid showed signs of being afflicted by the curse. The family refused to speak of the curse or let them destroy the horrid giant Jotuns who preyed upon them and seemed to be part of the problem. Now they were with the grim, surly and miserable family that suffered under the curse - had done so for seven hundred years. Djofull had tricked them into swearing in blood that they would destroy the curse that afflicted Hraedsla-dalur or return to serve his vile plans. In Leifr's attempts to recover his lost love, Ljosa, and Thurid's attempt to escape the Inquisitors, they had fallen into the hands of the evil Master Wizard Djofull. Leifr and Thurid were in trouble - worse than usual. 1st printing of 1990 edition:- Synopsis: The undiscoverable curse.

The Curse of Slagfid by Elizabeth H. Boyer