The Scandinavian sagas have had an influence on some the early fantasy writers: William Morris, E. R. Eddison, and of course J. R. R. Tolkien. I have had a copy of E. R. Eddison’s Styrbiorn the Strong lying around unread longer than I would like to admit. I have to get in the right frame […]
Writing (Sacnoth’s Scriptorium): So, while revising to my Eddison piece I came across a striking passage that I’d either overlooked before or, more likely, read when the book in question (Paul Thomas’s edition of ERE’s ZIMIAMVIA) came out (in 1992) and since forgot. In a passage discussing the composition of THE MEZENIAN GATE, Paul describes […]