Το Ξίφος του Πεπρωμένου

Το Ξίφος του Πεπρωμένου
Πληροφορίες Έκδοσης
Ημερομηνία Κυκλοφορίας	Miecz przeznaczenia. SuperNOWA, 1992
Είδος	Short story collection
Κυκλοφόρησε	No English translation
Προλογίστηκε	Η Τελευταία Ευχή
Ακολουθήθηκε	Το Αίμα των Ξωτικών
Μεταφράσεις	Περισσότερα...

Το Ξίφος του Πεπρωμένο (SuperNOWA, 1993. Πολωνικά: Miecz przeznaczenia, Αγγλικά: The Sword of Destiny) is the second book in Andrzej Sapkowski's Η σειρά The Witcher in terms of internal chronology, although the original Polish edition was published in 1992, before Η Τελευταία Ευχή (but after the Wiedźmin short story collection made obsolete by The Last Wish). Some of the individual short stories were first published in the Fantastyka magazine.

The book has been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Portuguese. It has not been translated into English and there are no plans to do so to date. The publisher of the English edition of the Witcher books decided to skip Miecz przeznaczenia and publish Blood of Elves (the first novel in the Έπος του Witcher) directly after The Last Wish, even though the short stories in this collection take place earlier and introduce some of the characters that become major characters in the novels.

Stories included

• Τα Όρια των Πιθανοτήτων (Πολωνικά: Granica możliwości, Αγγλικά: The Bounds of Reason or The Limits of Possibility)
• Ένα Κομμάτι Πάγου (Πολωνικά: Okruch lodu, Αγγλικά: A Shard of Ice)
• Αιώνιας Φλόγας (Πολωνικά: Wieczny ogień, Αγγλικά: The Eternal Fire)
• Trochę poświęcenia (Πολωνικά: Trochę poświęcenia, Αγγλικά: A Little Sacrifice)
• Το Ξίφος του Πεπρωμένου (Πολωνικά: Miecz przeznaczenia, Αγγλικά: The Sword of Destiny)
• Coś więcej (Πολωνικά: Coś więcej, Αγγλικά: Something More)

Μεταφράσεις

• Bulgarian: Меч на съдбата, (ИнфоДар, 2008)
• Czech: Zaklínač II - Meč osudu, (Leonardo, 2000)
• Dutch: Het zwaard van het lot, (Dutch Media Uitgevers, 2012)
• Finnish: Kohtalon Miekka, translated by Tapani Kärkkäinen (WSOY, 2011)
• French: L'Épée de la Providence, Alexandre Dayet (Bragelonne, 2008)
• Γερμανικά: Das Schwert der Vorsehung, (Heyne Verlag, 1998)
• Hungarian: Vaják II - A végzet kardja, (PlayOn, 2012)
• Italian: La spada del destino, (Nord, 2011)
• Lithuanian: Likimo kalavijas, (Dagonas, Kowno 1997)
• Portuguese: A Espada do Destino, translated by Thomasz Barcinski (WMF Martins Fontes, 2012)
• Russian: Меч Предназначения, translated by Yevgeny Vaysbrot (АСТ, 1996)
• Serbian: Mač sudbine - Saga o vešcu 2, (IPS 2010)
• Spanish: La espada del destino, translated by Jose María Faraldo (Bibliópolis fantástica, 2003)
• Swedish: Ödets svärd, (Coltso, 2011)

Audio versions

There are two audio versions of Miecz przeznaczenia avalible in Polish. Classic audiobook, lasting about 13 hours and read by Roch Siemianowski, was released by superNOWA (Polish publisher of Sapkowski’s works) in 1990s. In 2011, after huge success of audio play based on Sapkowski’s Narrenturm, Fonopolis and audioteka.pl released audio plays based on The Last Wish and Miecz przeznaczenia. Miecz przeznaczenia, lasting about 15 hours, was voiced by 49 actors, including Krzysztof Banaszyk (Vernon Roche in the Polish version of Assassins of Kings) as Γκέραλτ, Anna Dereszowska as Γιενέφερ, Sławimir Pacek (minor characters in video games) as Νταντέλιον, Joanna Pach (minor characters in video games) as Ciri, Wiktor Zborowski (famous Polish actor) as Istredd and Krzysztof Gosztyła as narrator. Samples from all short stories can be found on audioteka.pl’s site.

Notes

• Information in this wiki has been gleaned from the French edition: ISBN 978-2-35294-132-3

Gallery

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  First Polish edition

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  Second Polish edition, cover with Γκέραλτ and Ciri

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  Fourth softcover edition, designed along with CD Projekt

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  Polish cover of audiobook/audio play

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  Polish cover of audiobook/audio play

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  Bulgarian edition

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  Old Czech edition

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  Czech edition

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  Second Czech edition

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  Dutch edition (2012)

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  French edition - Bragalone

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  French edition (2011)

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  Second German edition - dtv

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  Hungarian edition

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  Italian edition - Nord

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  Lithuanuian edition - 1997

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  Serbian edition

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  Serbian edition (2012)

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  Spanish edition - Bibliopolis