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The Man Who Came Early

by Poul Anderson

An explosion throws Sergeant Gerald Robbins from the 1950s to about 990 AD Iceland where, despite his advanced knowledge, he has trouble fitting in.
Now, then. There is one point on which I must set you right. The end of the world is not coming in two years. This I know.
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“The Man Who Came Early,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1956.
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