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…

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…

‘The town now lying ahead is a commonplace-looking little town of wood principally; but there are pretty-looking homesteads on some of the islands off it, and the bright green of their home-meads is a great relief to us after all the grey of the sea,…

‘. . . we rounded a low ragged headland presently and were in the firth and off a narrow bight, at the end of which was the trading-station of Djupivogur (Deepbay): half a dozen wooden roofs, a flagstaff and two schooners lying at anchor’ (IJ pp.…