When his wife cheats on him, Golden Walter leaves his mundane life to start a new one at sea. Horrific news forces him to turn around, however, but before he can reach home, a...

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs is an epic poem telling the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund,...

Fear and Hope—those are the names of the two great passions which rule the race of man, and with which revolutionists have to deal; to give hope to the many oppressed and fear...

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, set in the forested land of Oakenrealm, was Morris' reimagining and recasting of the medieval Lay of Havelock the Dane, with his...

A selection of poetical works by William Morris including: Love Fulfilled, A Garden by the Sea, Mother and Son, Thunder in the Garden, The Half of Life Gone, Mine and Thine, and...

A selection of poetical works by William Morris including: The Message of the March Wind, The Bridge and the Street, Sending to the War, Mother and Son, New Birth, The New,...

The story is set in Burgdale, a small Germanic settlement in a valley at the foot of a mountain range, and the neighbouring woodlands, pastures and dales. The area is inhabited by...

The tragic grandeur of the Nibelungenlied is brought to life in this sweeping epic poem, which the author considered his finest literary achievement. It retells the saga of Sigurd...

Written in a unique blend of prose and verse, this saga recounts the struggle of the Gothic tribes to defend their forest homes against the imperial might of Rome. The story...

The House of the Wolfings is a romantically reconstructed portrait of the lives of the Germanic Gothic tribes, written in an archaic style and incorporating a large amount of...