Not just for Anderson fans, this is excellent fantasy. Anderson does a good job of piecing together a modern setting, myth, historical, and fantastic elements into a pleasing whole.įans of this book will also enjoy Anderson's short story "The Man Who Came Early" which is re-printed in his 1969 collection of short stories The Horn of Time.įinally, a recurring theme of Anderson’s work is an objective ability to produce a balance of extremes, and Three Hearts and Three Lions expertly presents both sides of an entertaining conflict.
This is, like the brilliant The Broken Sword, another visit to the realms of Faery, but Three Hearts and Three Lions is less mythic and more purely fantastic. This book, like several others of his authorship, is set in Denmark and reveals sentimentality toward the nation and culture.Īnderson explores ideas of law and chaos that may have influenced Michael Moorcock and, further, Gary Gygax (Dungeons and Dragons may be a literary descendant of this book). Poul Anderson was born in America but was of Scandinavian ancestry and his mother moved the family to Denmark to live for a time prior to World War II when they all moved back to the states. Twain must have influenced Three Hearts and Three Lions as the basis of the two stories are so close (there is even a direct reference to Twain’s work).
After reading Anderson’s novel The High Crusade, I remarked how I wondered if Anderson was influenced by Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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