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Lords of Swords, Vali's Wound
by John Hocking
Do you know your Valkyrie by name?She knows you by name - and she knows when your time is up!
The battle is won, but then the Valkyries come -- and they want your friend!
John C. Hocking, "Vali's Wound", illustration © Loren Malloy
Valkyrie: (in Norse Mythology) one of Odin's war maidens who select heroes to die in battle; she then conducts them to Valhalla. Like we needed the Oxford American dictionary to tell us that!
But wait...there's more!
What happens when the hero refuses to die? Can one kill a Valkyrie? How about a bribe?
No stranger to sword and sorcery, John C. Hocking authored Conan and the Emerald Lotus, one of the greatest Conan stories since Robert E. Howard.
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