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Line 2: '''''Three Hearts And Three Lions''''' is a fantasy novel by [[Poul Anderson]]. During [[World War II]], ~~Holgar~~Holger is in Denmark, part of [[La Résistance]]. Except that at one crucial moment, he finds himself transported to a fantasy world, where the Matter of France from [[Chivalric Romance]], Charlemagne and his paladins, is true. And that he has some sort of connection with this world that he can not remember. A major influence on [[Dungeons and Dragons]]. Line 11: * [[Animated Armor]]: Guarding the passes into fairyland. * [[Chick Magnet]]: Holger, to his surprise. Apparently he never got that lucky back home. ** The narrator of the prologue and epilogue, to whom Holger tells his story, explicitly says Holger never got that lucky in our world because he was '''too''' nice a guy -- too concerned with not hurting girls' feelings to be any good at making advances. * [[Door Step Baby]]: Holger again. * [[The Fair Folk]]: Complete with the allergy to cold iron and holy names. Line 17 ⟶ 18: * [[Knight in Shining Armor]] * [[The Paladin]]: The paladins of this work are where the original inspiration for the Paladin class from ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' came from. * [[Send Me Back]]: With the twist that, unlike in most "Send Me Back" situations, the fantasy world is where he came from '''originally'''. As one back-cover blurb put it, "For it was Earth that was his exile...." * [[Send Me Back]] * [[Shapeshifting Lover]] * [[Shout Out]]: Just as the Matter of France is true in this fantasy world, so '''they''' have legends based on fact and fiction from our own, a Faerie duke referring to "epical chansons about the Emperor Napoleon...." He specifically mentions a Napoleonic officer, Gerard, from several stories by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. * [[Taken for Granite]]: The Giant.