title: Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies)
author:  Timothy R. Tangherlini 
description: "A fascinating, cohesive, and timely book. After a full, informative introduction, Tanghlerini gives us generous selections from five of Tang Kristensens most productive informantsin tales rendered into fluent, vigorous, sometimes salty American-English."Paul Binding, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, October 4 2013
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   Poul Anderson
    
   Editorial Reviews
  Ingram
  Transported into a magical alternate world of dragons, witches, and fairy-folk, skeptical engineer Holger
  Carlsen finds himself at the center of a looming conflict in which he is inexplicably a key figure. Reissue.
   Spotlight Reviews
   My first Anderson, June 17, 2000
   
  Reviewer:
   and not a bad place to start (I've read plenty since). This book introduces the reader to the Nordic
  themes that pervade Anderson's fiction, even his ostensibly hard sf (yes, this book is actually set in the
  world of Charlemagne's paladins, but guess which of the paladins is the hero? You guessed it, Ogier the
  Dane; well, Anderson is of Danish origin, so what does one expect?). The story is fairly formulaic, but
  with some nice touches. Virginity doesn't get the short shrift it frequently does in modern fiction, and the
  hero converts to Catholicism after his return to our world (which g