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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Magnus, Valhalla, Sword entitled The Sword of Summer?
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conversations.value: The Sword of Summer: The novel opens on the sixteenth birthday of the protagonist Magnus Chase, who has been living on the streets of Boston since his mother Natalie\'s death two years ago.\nAfter learning that his uncle Randolph has unexpectedly sent his uncle Frederick and cousin Annabeth to search for him, Magnus breaks into Randolph\'s house to look for answers.\nRandolph catches Magnus and drives him to Longfellow Bridge, cryptically claiming that Magnus is the son of a Norse god, giving him magic powers and placing him in the sights of an unnamed magical enemy.\nRandolph tells the boy that he must magically retrieve an ancient sword (Sumarbrander, or the "Sword of Summer") hidden in Boston Harbor to protect himself.\nA fire giant known as Surt appears demanding the sword, and begins to destroy the bridge.\nMagnus attacks Surt to allow other pedestrians time to escape.\nAs he realizes that he is about to die, he manages to wound the demon and hurl the two of them off the bridge.\nHe dies on impact with the water.\nMagnus awakens in a place called Hotel Valhalla as an einherjar, where he is told he will spend eternity training for the day of Ragnarök.\nHe is introduced to a Valkyrie named Sam who brought him to Valhalla, and to his new einherjar roommates.\nDuring Magnus\'s welcome feast, the three Norns pronounce Magnus a son of Frey and deliver a confusing prophecy.\nThe hotel\'s ruling council banishes Sam the Valkyrie for apparently "wrongly [choosing]" Magnus.\nThat night, Magnus\'s "human" friends Hearth and Blitz arrive and reveal they are actually an elf and dwarf, respectively.\nThey convince him to leave the hotel.\nIn Midgard, the trio joins up with Sam.\nThe group then meets with the god Mimir, who tasks them with finding the Sword before Surt and bringing it to the island of the Fenris Wolf.\nThey retrieve the sword from the sea goddess Ran and journey to Nidavellir to secure a new binding for the Wolf.\nDuring his quest, Magnus experiences dream-visions of Loki, and once even of the goddess Hel offering to reunite him with his late mother—a proposal he struggles to refuse.\nAfter a detour to Jotunheim, where they help the god Thor and Magnus discovers new magical powers, they finally arrive at Fenris\'s island.\nDespite being attacked by a group of Valkyries, some Magnus\'s hallmates, and Surt, they successfully rebind the Wolf.\nMagnus has a brief vision of his father Frey before returning to Hotel Valhalla to stand trial for his disobedience.\nBefore he can be punished, however, Magnus\'s hallmate X stands and reveals himself to be the god Odin, in disguise.\nOdin rewards each of the heroes in turn, finally offering Magnus a chance to return to life or choose a different afterlife.\nMagnus declines, but returns to Boston to speak with his cousin Annabeth.\nThe two hold a funeral for Natalie Chase and exchange stories of each other\'s lives as demigods.\nThe novel ends with an epilogue, in which Uncle Randolph is punished by Loki for not being able to stop Magnus from rebinding Fenris.\nLoki implies that Randolph\'s family will be in danger if the man does not cooperate.\nThe prophecy that was given to Magnus by the Norns reads: Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain.\nNine days hence the sun must go east, Ere Sword of Summer unbinds the beast.\nThe first line of the prophecy was initially taken as confirmation that Magnus was unfit for duty as an einherjar; later, Odin interprets it to mean that Loki chose the wrong hero to manipulate.\nThe second line refers to how Magnus manages to leave Valhalla despite claims that the hotel is impossible to escape.\nThe final two lines describe how Sumarbrander was fated to free Fenris (as it did before rebinding him), and how the one day of the year where Fenris\'s island can be reached by a mortal was exactly nine days from the date the prophecy was given.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Sword of Summer
  I considered screaming and pounding on the window. Would anybody help me? If I could get out of the car, maybe I could find Uncle Frederick and Annabeth, assuming they were any less insane than Randolph.
  We turned onto Charles Street, heading north between the Public Garden and the Common. Randolph could've been taking me anywhere—Cambridge, the North End, or some out-of-the-way body dump.
  Randolph's face reminded me of the Man in the Moon from old black-and-white cartoons: pale and rotund, pitted and scarred, with a secretive smile that wasn't very friendly. "Magnus, what do you know about Norse mythology?"
  Randolph shook his head in disgust. "Those movies...ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard—Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest—are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct."
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conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: It reminded me of those cheap 1970s cartoons where a character runs but the scenery behind him just keeps repeating itself. Charles Street spiraled around our pursuers like a giant hamster wheel. For the first time, I got what Sam had told me about runes being able to change reality.
  I ran my hands quickly across the bronze ducks. At the fourth one, I stopped. I felt warmth, safety...a sense of rightness.
  I rose to my feet. Not sure what I was doing, I pulled my pendant from its chain. appeared in my hands. Its blade purred like a demented cat. I tapped it against the bronze duck and sliced upward.
  The air parted like a curtain. Stretching in front of me, instead of a sidewalk, was an expanse of tree branches. The nearest one, as wide as Beacon Street, ran directly under us, maybe three feet down, suspended over a gray void. Unfortunately, the cut I'd made in the fabric of Midgard was already closing.
  Over on Charles Street, Gunilla screamed in outrage. She and her Valkyries were still flying full-tilt on their cartoon hamster wheel, the einherjar stumbling along behind them.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last paragraph?
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conversations.value: YMIR—the largest of the giants; father to both the giants and the gods. He was killed by Odin and his brothers, who used his flesh to create Midgard. This act was the genesis of the cosmic hatred between the gods and the giants.