Series
Three Hearts and Three Lions
Harry Turtledove, Poul Anderson & Tad Williams · 1 novel · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1961–2014
Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961, expanded from a 1953 novella) follows Holger Carlsen, a Danish resistance fighter wounded fighting the Nazis, who wakes in a medieval world of knights, dragons, and sorcery drawn from Carolingian legend. Poul Anderson wrote it as a self-contained portal fantasy; the later story Three Lilies and Three Leopards, by Harry Turtledove and Tad Williams, is a tribute piece published in an anniversary anthology rather than a true narrative sequel.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
Shape
1 novel · 1 novella · 1 novelette
3 authors
reads like:fantasytransported to another worldsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Three Hearts and Three Lionsdarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense