OFF: MM/plagiarism

[Chris Warburton]

Andy_Gilham wrote

>_The Broken Sword_ is from 1954 - it's a loooooong time since I read
>it, but >it features a cursed sword of unnaturally dark hue...  I do
>remember it as a very fine book indeed, but like I said...
>
>I can't offhand trace the reference where MM mentioned it - it might
>even have been in discussion at a signing or something - but I'm sure
>he has acknowledged it.  I think it's a long way from borrowing a
>device to out-and-out plagiarism, though - the tone of Anderson's
>book is that of Nordic myth, not at all like that of the Elric
>stories.

Yes, a very fine book, although in the foreword to my copy (a mid '70s
paperback) Anderson says that he couldn't imagine writing anything so violent
by then.  He also pointed out that the myth of the broken sword was one he'd
lifted from Northen European folklore, coincidentally he'd been sipping from
the same well as Tolkien did for Aragorn's sword in LOTR

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