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The Coming of Conan (1953):
“The Frost Giant’s Daughter”
by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp

The Coming of Conan

Title: “The Frost Giant’s Daughter”

Medium: prose text story

Cover date: 1953

Publisher: Gnome Press
Written by: Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp


2 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: S Cimmerian paganism (esp. the
god Crom)
[barbarian] Clayton Publications Weird Tales, etc. 898
Ymir Ymir
(mentioned)
villain
CBR Scale: D Norse/Teutonic paganism
(Asgardian)
Ice Giant
[monarch of the Ice Giants]
Marvel 69

This prose text story was reprinted from: Fantasy Fiction (vol. 1) #3 (Aug. 1953): "The Frost Giant's Daughter".

Notes from original source:
This version of Robert E. Howard's early Conan story "The Frost Giant's Daughter" was extensively re-written by L. Sprague de Camp using Howard's original, unpublished manuscript for the story.