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The Knight with the Brass Voice
The broadsword wasn't meant for thrusting, but Holger saw a crack in his opponent's breastplate and stabbed inward. Sparks poured forth. The knight reeled, sank to his knees, and then fell to the ground with a hideous clanking sound...
Then Alianora was clinging to his arms and sobbing and exclaiming at how well he'd done in his first battle. I? Holger thought. I know nothing of broadswords and lances-and yet, who won this fight?
He knelt down and opened the visor of the slain knight's helmet. Hollowness gaped at him. The armor was empty. It must have been empty all the time.

THE SWORD AND THE SPELL
A near-miss on a modern battlefield-and Holger finds himself no longer a soldier but a knight-at-arms, exiled to an eldritch realm of sorcery and magic where a bloodsome war is gathering. The enchantress le Fey would have his sword for Chaos; the San-may would have him serve her gentler kind. At first he denies them both to find out how to return to "reality"-but the chill of his knowing is like a cold wind through his ribs. For it was Earth that was his exile: It is here, in the lowering dragon-smoke, that he must fight and die...

Copyright (c) 1953, by Fantasy House, Inc.
Copyright (c) 1961 by Poul Anderson

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