In these pages, Poul Anderson, through his character, Trygve Yamamura, summarizes considerable information about Japanese swords, the sort of information that I usually summarize further here. However, Anderson's presentation is already so condensed that I will simply refer blog readers to Anderson's text.
It is satisfying that the Japanese-Norwegian Yamamura also refers to, and summarizes the story of, the sword Tyrfing which has already received much blog coverage. See here. Everything comes together.
I continue my quest for "time and place" in Perish By The Sword.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Besides the Tyrfing of Scandinavian legends, there were other swords in Western tales which gained a powerful significance: King Arthur's Excalibur, Charlemagne's Joyeuse, Holger the Dane's Cortana, etc. And Charlemagne's sword still exists, preserved in what's left of the crown jewels of France. And we are both familiar with Holger!
Sean
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