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| | The Chants of Old Heroes, Singing in our Ears by Steve Tompkins |
 | | So potent is it, that while the older southern imagination has faded for ever into literary ornament, the northern has power, as it were, to revive its spirit even in our own times. |
 | | The northern imagination has in fact revived its spirit past Tolkien’s times and into our own, and despite its brevity, “The Frost Giant’s Daughter” is as memorable an American contribution to “the Northern thing” in modern fantasy as Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword and Hrolf Kraki’s Saga. |
 | | But now we know that beneath what is apparently boreal in the story, there lurks the austral-tales told by Greeklings. |
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