Troll Bridge

expanded short fiction 1992 Discworld

Record

First published	1992
Original language	EN
Work type	short fiction
Canon status	expanded
First-edition ISBN	9780312851750

Synopsis

Cohen the Barbarian sets out to prove himself by killing a troll in single combat, but when he meets the troll Mica, the two old fighters instead find themselves reflecting on how the world — and the tradition of trolls guarding bridges for heroes to fight — has changed.

Where it sits

• Universe: Discworld
• Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
• Author: Terry Pratchett

Notes

• Anthology After the King (written 1991 per L-Space); collected in A Blink of the Screen (2012).

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within Discworld (standalone work): position 15 of 56: previous Lords and Ladies (1992) · next Men at Arms (1993)

Sources

• https://wiki.lspace.org/Troll_Bridge
• https://wiki.lspace.org/Short_Story:Troll_Bridge

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