William Morris Archive

With May Morris in Iceland

Adapted from a letter from Örn Gíslason

My wife and I joined a William Morris Society excursion to Kelmscott Manor around May 2008, where we learned that, like her father, May Morris had visited Iceland, traveling…

Collection

Morris, May, ed. and intro. The Collected Works of William Morris. Vol. 12: Sigurd the Volsung. London: Longmans, 1911, xxii-xxx.

I have before me a little note-book which, after some pages of diary of work on the Aeneid . . . begins a page…

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May Morris, remarks in introduction to Collected Works, Vol. VII, Grettir the Strong


. . . We put forward this volume as the translation of an old story founded on facts, full of dramatic interest, and setting before people's eyes pictures of…