A review by ben_miller
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

4.0

A fast-moving, dark, bloody hero myth. Comparisons with Tolkien are inevitable (it was published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring), but it has much more in common with Beowulf or The Tain: a grim tale of morally-ambiguous superhumans locked in a struggle to the death, told in high-flown prose that at its best has a certain cold majesty.