7/6/2023 0 Comments Corum the knight of the swords![]() ![]() His lover Rhalina is much more learned in it. Unlike Elric, he is a rational, dispassionate sort who dismisses sorcery, in this world practiced by the upstart Mabden. He gets maimed, losing an eye and head, and then falls in love with a Mabden woman. In short order he finds himself virtually the last Vadagh, a complacent, rational, anti-social race that he finds upon venturing out of his castle, almost dead at the hands of the upstart race of man, here called Mabden. The book wastes no time making Corum as a mournful, melancholy figure. I found several things surprising, variations on the other fantasies of the Eternal Champion saga. The Knight of the Swords - I liked this fantasy more than I thought I would, especially since I found out it was based on Cornish mythology. “Introduction” - In a short introduction, Moorcock notes this is only fantasy whose language and mythology derives from a specific source, specifically Cornish. My reactions to reading tis omnibus in 1999. ![]()
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