Legions of the Dead

"Legions of the Dead" is a short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. In the opinion of de Camp critic Morgan Holmes, Catherine Crook de Camp may have had a hand in the writing as well. It was first published by Bantam Books in the paperback collection Conan the Swordsman in August 1978. Later paperback editions of the collection were issued by Ace Books (1987 and 1991). The first hardcover edition was published by Tor Books in 2002. The book has also been translated into Italian. It was later gathered together with Conan the Liberator and Conan and the Spider God into the omnibus collection Sagas of Conan (Tor Books, 2004).

Plot summary

The Hyperboreans have kidnapped Rann, the daughter of Njal, head of a band of Aesir, who leads his men on a raid to win her back. The young Cimmerian Conan participates in the raid. Ominously, the thirty men sent ahead as scouts vanish, and when the rest reach the enemy stronghold they witness them being tortured to death on the fortress walls. Conan infiltrates the castle and recovers the girl, whereupon the Aesir take flight for Asgard, pursued by the Hyperboreans. Turning at bay, Njal's men realize that the reanimated corpses of their slain comrades are among those fighting against them. In the ensuing battle, Conan is taken by the enemy. (His escape is detailed in "The Thing in the Crypt," previously published but later chronologically.)

Up

Up is the y-axis relative vertical direction opposed to down.

Up or UP may also refer to:

Places

  • -up, a suffix in Australian place names
  • United Provinces (disambiguation)
  • University Park, Pennsylvania
  • University Park, Texas
  • Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States
  • Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Eup (administrative division)
  • Art, entertainment, and media

    Film

  • Up! (1976 film), an adult comedy by Russ Meyer
  • Up (1984 film), a short film
  • Up (2009 film), by Disney/Pixar
  • Music

    Artists

  • The Up, a Detroit protopunk band
  • Albums

  • Up! (album), by Shania Twain
  • Up (film score), for the Disney/Pixar film
  • Up (ABC album)
  • Up (Peter Gabriel album)
  • Up (Great Big Sea album)
  • Up (Morrissey–Mullen album)
  • Up (Pop Evil album)
  • Up (R.E.M. album)
  • Up (Right Said Fred album)
  • Songs

  • "Up" (James Morrison song)
  • "Up" (Olly Murs song)
  • "Up" (The Saturdays song)
  • "Up!" (Shania Twain song)
  • "Up!" (Samantha Jade song)
  • "Up", a song by Justin Bieber from the album My World 2.0
  • "Up", a song by Rob Crow
  • "UP!", a song by LoveRance
  • "Up!", a song by M83 from the album Saturdays = Youth
  • Eup (administrative division)

    An eup or ŭp is an administrative unit in both North Korea and South Korea similar to the unit of town.

    In South Korea

    Along with "myeon", an "eup" is one of the divisions of a county ("gun"), and of some cities ("si") with a population of less than 500,000. The main town or towns in a countyor the secondary town or towns within a city's territoryare designated as "eup"s. Towns are subdivided into villages ("ri"). In order to form an eup, the minimum population required is 20,000.

    See also

  • Administrative divisions of South Korea
  • Notes

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