After this, the only thing left that seemed interesting and that was “The uses of myth in fantasy” that was a conversation between Stephen Grundy and Robert Jordan.
Stephen Grundy bases his novel on the legend of Sigrid. Robert Jordan said that he instead took all the myths he could get his hands on, read what he could find, put it all in a large pot and stir and see what floats up to the surface. I have to admit I got a little jealous when he said he read about 300 books per year. At the same time he apparently seems to be able to write a whole lot too. The subsequent debate started with the authors arguing a bit for their respective views on how to use mythology in novels. Stephen Grundy thought that you should keep yourself to one example and keep more or less true to that one. While Robert Jordan thought it was OK to borrow material from loads of different myths. “If you find something you like, you should use it,” he said; “if you then don’t like the rest of the myth, just throw it away. You could either borrow something more fitting from other sources or just write in the holes yourself.”
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