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Perhaps. Palatine Send a noteboard - 08/04/2012 04:33:07 PM
Okay, it pretty much kicked off modern fantasy but it was really only a reforging of old Scandinavian mythic epics.


But that could be said for any modern work of any genre. What's the saying? "There's nothing new under the sun."
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