Morris's interest in Icelandic literature is further shown by his Sigurd the Volsung, an epic founded upon one of the old sagas, and by his prose romances, The House of the Wolfings, The Story of the Glittering Plain, and The Roots of the Mountains.

Texts: Story of the Glittering Plain, House of the Wolfings, etc. (Reeves & Turner); Early Romances, in Everyman's Library; Sigurd the Volsung, in Camelot Series; Socialistic writings (Humboldt Publishing Co.).

" Morris later wrote a long series of narrative poems, called The Earthly Paradise (1868-1870) and an epic, Sigurd the Volsung (1876).

Morris left two long narrative poems, The Life and Death of Jason, and The Story of Sigurd the Volsung.

The chief personages of Sigurd the Volsung are admittedly more than human, the events frankly marvellous.

It says much for the genius of Morris that Sigurd the Volsung, with all these faults, is not to be condemned; that, on the contrary, to read it is rather a great than a tiresome experience; and not only because the faults are relieved, here and there, by exquisite beauties and dignities, indeed by incomparable lines, but because the poem as a whole does, as it goes on, accumulate an immense pressure of significance.

Sigurd the Volsung is a kind of set exercise in epic poetry.

Of course, the fact that, in both these cases, regular epic did eventually occur, must warn us that in artistic development anything may happen; but it does seem as if there were a deeper improbability for the occurrence of regular epic now than in the times just before Virgil and Tassoof regular epic, that is, inspired by some vital import, not simply, like Sigurd the Volsung, by archaeological import.

'Morris' Sigurd the Volsung, 12/-, less dis., 9/-.'

Her heart stood stillThere rose, singing like an archangel, the mystic call of the Volsung, then the yearning melody of love; such glory, such longing for beauty, for lifeand then brusquely, again and again, the screaming, sobbing recollection of the fact of death....

SEE The Saga of the Volsungs.

THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS, The saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, together with The lay of Kraka.

SEE The Saga of the Volsungs.

SEE The Saga of the Volsungs.

Song of the Volsungs.

SEE The Saga of the Volsungs.

THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS, The saga of Ragnar Lodbrok, together with The lay of Kraka.

SEE The Saga of the Volsungs.

SEE The Saga of the Volsungs.

Song of the Volsungs.

VOLSUNGS, a race figuring in Norse and German legend of the 12th century, and with the fate in whose history it is so widely occupied, and that of its heroes.

When Dietrich was but five years of age his training was intrusted to Hildebrand, son of Herbrand, one of the Volsung race; and so well did the tutor acquit himself of this task that he soon made his pupil as accomplished a warrior as himself.