War of the Gods

304 pages

English language

Published 1997 by Tom Doherty Associates, Distributed in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press.

OCLC Number:
36876110

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The story of Hadding is one of the darkest and most violent to come down to us from the old North. An enigmatic figure, Hadding has remained a mystery to mythologists and folklorists for a century and a half. Aside from incidental mentions, there are only a few sources that give us any solid facts about the great Danish king, whom many compare to King Arthur himself.

Poul Anderson has extensively researched the legend to piece together as much authentic material as possible. He gives us a feel for life as it was in that wintry land, the way people ate, talked, and lived, down to the very gods they worshiped. And in the cosmic framework of that era, kings were generally felt to be descended from the gods themselves.

Hadding's story, however, starts off humbly, when his father, a Danish king, is slain shortly after his birth. Hadding is …

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Subjects

  • Kings and rulers -- Fiction
  • Vikings -- Fiction
  • Denmark -- History -- To 1241 -- Fiction