William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas Felce Hardback D. S. Brewer 9781843845010

William Morris and the Icelandic SagasAuthor(s): Ian Felce\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843845010, 978-1843845010\nSynopsis\nAn examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris.\n\nThe work of William Morris [tel] was hugely influenced by the medieval sagas and poetry of Iceland; in particular, they inspired his long poems \""The Lovers of Gudrun\"" and Sigurd the Volsung. Between 1868 and 1876, Morris not only translated several major sagas into English for the first time with his collaborator the Icelander Eirkur Magnsson [tel] but he also travelled on horseback twice across the Icelandic interior, journeys which led him through the best known of the saga sites.\nBy looking closely at his translations of the sagas and the texts on which he based them, the journals of his travels in Iceland, and his saga-inspired long poems and lyric poetry, this book sh.