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Elizabeth Moon - The Deed of Paksenarrion [vol 1] Sheepfarmer's Daughter
Elizabeth Moon - The Deed of Paksenarrion [vol 1] Sheepfarmer's Daughter
THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION
ELIZABETH MOON
[vol 1] Sheepfarmer 's Daughter
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THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION is the true heir to
middle earth
"This is the first work of high heroic fantasy I've seen that
has taken the work of Tolkien, assimilated it totally and
deeply and absolutely, and produced something altogether
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new and yet incontestably based on the master.... This is
the Fourth Age as it has to have been. This is the real
thing. World-building in the grand tradition, background
thought out to the last detail, by someone who knows
whereof she speaks. Her military knowledge is
impressive, her picture of life in a mercenary company
most convincing. I'm deeply impressed....
"After so many half-baked clones of Tolkien, and so
much generic medieval fantasy, I can't go on enough
about how delighted I am to find something of this
quality.
"Brava!"
-Judith Tarr
Baen Books By Elizabeth Moon
Hunting Party Sporting Chance Winning Colors Once a
Hero
Liar's Oath Surrender None: The Legacy of Gird
Sassinak (with Anne McCaffrey)
Generation Warriors (with Anne McCaffrey)
The Planet Pirates (with Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn
Nye)
THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION This is a work of
fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
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Elizabeth Moon - The Deed of Paksenarrion [vol 1] Sheepfarmer's Daughter
book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or
incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 1992 by Elizabeth Moon
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this
book or portions thereof in any form.
Baen Publishing Enterprises PO Box 1403 Riverdale, NY
10471
ISBN: 0-671-72104-6 Cover art by Keith Parkinson
First printing, February 1992 Second printing, February
1992 Third printing, January 1995 Fourth printing,
November 1997
Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the
Americas
New York, NY 10020
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Deed Of Paksenarrion has been published in slightly
different form as Sheepfarmer's Daughter, copyright ©
1988, Divided Allegiance, copyright © 1988, and Oath of
Gold, copyright © 1989.
Prologue
In a sheepfarmer's low stone house, high in the hills
above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the
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mantelpiece. One is very old and slightly bent, a sword
more iron than steel, dark as a pot: forged, so the tale
runs, by the smith in Rocky Ford — yet it is a sword, for
all that, and belonged to Kanas once, and tasted orcs'
blood and robbers' blood in its time. The other is a very
different matter: long and straight, keen-edged, of the
finest sword-steel, silvery and glinting blue even in
yellow firelight. The pommel's knot design is centered
with the deeply graven seal of St. Gird; the cross-hilts are
gracefully shaped and chased in gold.
The children of that place look at both swords with awe,
and on some long winter nights old Dorthan, grandfather
of fathers and graybeard now, takes from its carved chest
the scroll that came with the sword and reads aloud to his
family. But first he reminds them of the day a stranger
rode up, robed and mantled in white, an old man with thin
silver hair, and handed down the box and the sword,
naked as it hangs now.
"Keep these," the stranger said, "in memory of your
daughter Paksenarrion. She wishes you to have them and
has no need of them." And though he accepted water from
their well, he would say no more of Paksenarrion,
whether she lived or lay buried far away, whether she
would return or no.
The scroll Dorthan reads is headed The Deed of
Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter of Three Firs , and many are
the tales of courage and adventure written therein. Time
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