In Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, Skafloc sees the sunken tower of Ys and he and Mananaan mac Lir, son of one of the Three of Ys, sail to Jotunheim.
In Poul Anderson's and Mildred Downey Broxon's The Demon Of Scattery, Mananaan recounts a story to Skafloc en route to Jotunheim.
The story is about a couple who become the paternal grandparents of Gunnhild, the title character of Poul Anderson's Mother Of Kings.
Thus, these seven volumes are connected (as is much else, of course).
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Kaor, Paul!
Sometimes it helps to wait a while before leaving a comment. One thought I had, inspired by you mentioning Anderson/Broxon's
Kaor, Paul!
Sometimes it helps to wait a while before leaving a comment. One thought I had, inspired by you mentioning Anderson/Broxon's THE DEMON OF SCATTERY, was recalling how the monastery sacked by the Vikings in that story had an unusually large and rich library, five or six books. And that brought to mind comments by Stirling and me how sheerly accidental which books would survive, in part or whole, from ages in which the only means of reproducing books was by hand.
I also recalled how that monastic library included a ms. containing some of the medical works of Galen, the second century AD court physician of Marcus Aurelius. And of how, in Stirling's Antonine books Galen was befriended and assisted by Arthur/Artorius.
THE DEMON OF SCATTERY also made me think of connections!
Ad astra! Sean
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