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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung
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Title: The Story of Sigurd the Volsung
Author: William Morris
Release Date: September 17, 2004 [eBook #13486]
Language: English
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THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG
Written In Verse By
WILLIAM MORRIS
With Portions Condensed Into Prose by Winifred Turner, B.A. Late Assistant Mistress, Ware Grammar School For Girls And Helen Scott, M.A.
1922
BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION
By J. W. Mackail
William Morris, one of the most eminent imaginative writers of the Victorian age, differs from most other poets and men of letters in two ways--first, he did great work in many other things as well as in literature; secondly, he had beliefs of his own about the meaning and conduct of life, about all that men think and do and make, very different from those of ordinary people, and he carried out these views in his writings as well as in all the other work he did throughout his life.
He was born in 1834. His father, a member of a business firm in the City of London, was a wealthy man and lived in Essex, in a country house with large gardens and fields belonging to it, on the edge of Epping Forest. Until the age of thirteen