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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.

V.

CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE HALL-SUN.

VI.

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

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VIII.

CHAPTER VIII. THE FOLK-MOTE OF THE MARKMEN.

[“O kindreds of the Markmen, hearken the words I say]

[“Lo thus much of my tidings! But this too it behoveth to tell]

[“Lo I am a man of the Shieldings and Geirmund is my name]

[“O men of the Mark, will ye meet them in the meadows and the field]

[“O kindreds of the Markmen; to-morrow with the day]

[“Now sunder we the Folk-mote! and the feast is for to-night]

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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[“O kindreds of the Markmen, hearken the words I say]

[Dayling Warrior.]
“O kindreds of the Markmen, hearken the words I say;
For no chancehap assembly is gathered here to-day.
The fire hath gone around us in the hands of our very kin,
And twice the horn hath sounded, and the Thing is hallowed in.
Will ye hear or forbear to hearken the tale there is to tell?
There are many mouths to tell it, and a many know it well.
And the tale is this, that the foemen against our kindreds fare
Who eat the meadows desert, and burn the desert bare.”