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The Collected Works of William Morris

With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

Morris, William (1834-1896)

I.

VOLUME I THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE AND OTHER POEMS

II.

VOLUME II THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JASON

III, IV, V, VI.

VOLUME III, IV, V, VI THE EARTHLY PARADISE

VII.

VOLUME VII THE STORY OF GRETTIR THE STRONG. THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS

IX.

VOLUME IX LOVE IS ENOUGH. POEMS BY THE WAY

X.

VOLUME X THREE NORTHERN LOVE STORIES. THE TALE OF BEOWULF

XII.

VOLUME XII THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG AND THE FALL OF THE NIBLUNGS

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XIV.

VOLUME XIV THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS. THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN

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A TALE OF THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS AND ALL THE KINDREDS OF THE MARK WRITTEN IN PROSE AND IN VERSE BY WILLIAM MORRIS

[WHILES IN THE EARLY WINTER EVE]

II.

CHAPTER II. THE FLITTING OF THE WAR-ARROW.

III.

CHAPTER III. THIODOLF TALKETH WITH THE WOOD-SUN.

IV.

CHAPTER IV. THE HOUSE FARETH TO THE WAR.

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V.

CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE HALL-SUN.

[“Hail, Hall-Sun of the Markmen! how fares it now with thee]

[“It fares with me, O mother, that my soul would fain go forth]

[“From a far folk have I wandered and I come of an alien blood]

[“Yea true it is, I am wedded to the mighty ones of old]

[“How glad shall be thy mother of thy worship and thy worth]

[“None knoweth who is my mother, nor my very father's name]

[“Yea, I have heard the story, but scarce therein might I trow]

[“Yea; thus much I remember for the first of my memories]

[“Nay damsel, long would I hearken to thy voice this summer day.]

[I awoke on a time in the even, and voices I heard as I woke]

[“I waxed 'neath the Roof of the Wolfings, till now to look upon]

[“Why went ye forth, O Wolfings, from the garth your fathers built]

VI.

CHAPTER VI. THEY TALK ON THE WAY TO THE FOLK-THING.

VIII.

CHAPTER VIII. THE FOLK-MOTE OF THE MARKMEN.

IX.

CHAPTER IX. THE ANCIENT MAN OF THE DAYLINGS.

XI.

CHAPTER XI. THE HALL-SUN SPEAKETH.

XIII.

CHAPTER XIII. THE HALL-SUN SAITH ANOTHER WORD.

XV.

CHAPTER XV. THEY HEAR TELL OF THE BATTLE ON THE RIDGE.

XVI.

CHAPTER XVI. HOW THE DWARF-WROUGHT HAUBERK WAS BROUGHT AWAY FROM THE HALL OF THE DAYLINGS.

XVII.

CHAPTER XVII. THE WOOD-SUN SPEAKETH WITH THIODOLF.

XIX.

CHAPTER XIX. THOSE MESSENGERS COME TO THIODOLF.

XX.

CHAPTER XX. OTTER AND HIS FOLK COME INTO MID-MARK.

XXII.

CHAPTER XXII. OTTER FALLS ON AGAINST HIS WILL.

XXVI.

CHAPTER XXVI. THIODOLF TALKETH WITH THE WOOD-SUN.

XXVII.

CHAPTER XXVII. THEY WEND TO THE MORNING BATTLE.

XXVIII.

CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THE STORM OF DAWNING.

XXIX.

CHAPTER XXIX. OF THIODOLF'S STORM.

XXX.

CHAPTER XXX. THIODOLF IS BORNE OUT OF THE HALL AND OTTER IS LAID BESIDE HIM.

XXXI.

CHAPTER XXXI. OLD ASMUND SPEAKETH OVER THE WAR-DUKES: THE DEAD ARE LAID IN MOUND.

THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN OR THE LAND OF LIVING MEN

XV.

VOLUME XV THE ROOTS OF THE MOUNTAINS

XVI.

VOLUME XVI NEWS FROM NOWHERE. A DREAM OF JOHN BALL. A KING'S LESSON

XVII.

VOLUME XVII THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD. CHILD CHRISTOPHER. OLD FRENCH ROMANCES

XXI.

VOLUME XXI THE SUNDERING FLOOD. UNFINISHED ROMANCES

XXIV.

VOLUME XXIV SCENES FROM THE FALL OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS AND FRAGMENTS

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[“None knoweth who is my mother, nor my very father's name]

[Hall-Sun.]
“None knoweth who is my mother, nor my very father's name;
But when to the House of the Wolfings a wild-wood waif I came,
They gave me a foster-mother an ancient dame and good,
And a glorious foster-father the best of all the blood.”