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Title: Depressing and overtold.
Review: This book is a depressing tale of a Scandanavian hero. It is no wonder the Scandanavians have the highest suicide rates in the industrialized world. This story goes from one battle to another without breath and there is no epic feeling to it. It seems the Danish King cannot help but offend gods, giants, elves and other mythic creatures at every turn. There are many more enjoyable Viking/Norse tales to be told. Poul Anderson is a mighty writer, and this may be gleaned from many years of painstaking research, but it is a story that did not need to be told.
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