Midwinter, a time of darkness, a time to release past sorrows...
Lord Paethor, young and haunted, accepts a mission from his king: to retrieve the enchanted sword Farslayer—or die in the attempt.
"Glad Yule," a fantasy novella, first appeared in the anthology An Armory of Swords, edited by Fred Saberhagen and set in his Swords of Power universe.