The Story of Frithiof the Bold
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William Morris
William Morris (1834-1896) was an accomplished writer, textile designer and artist. A utopian socialist, he was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Craft Movement, and was a founding member of the Socialist League in Britain. Greatly influenced by the medieval period, Morris helped establish the modern fantasy genre though his works The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, A Dream of John Ball, and The Well at the World’s End. Authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were greatly influenced by works like The House of the Wolfings, The Roots of the Mountains, and The Wood Beyond the World. Morris was also an accomplished publisher, founding the Kelmscott Press in 1891, whose 1896 edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.
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The Story of Frithiof the Bold - William Morris
THE STORY OF FRITHIOF
THE BOLD
Translated From the Icelandic
BY
EIRIKR MAGNUSSON
AND WILLIAM MORRIS
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Contents
William Morris
CHAPTER I. Of King Belt and Thorstein Vikingson and their Children.
CHAPTER II. Frithiof wooeth Ingibiorg of those Brethren.
CHAPTER III. Of King Ring and those Brethren.
CHAPTER IV. Frithiof goes to Baldur’s Meads.
CHAPTER V. Those Brethren come Home again.
CHAPTER VI. Frithiof Sails for the Orkneys.
CHAPTER VII. Frithiof at the Orkneys.
CHAPTER VIII. King Ring weddeth Ingibiorg.
CHAPTER IX. Frithiof brings the Tribute to the Kings.
CHAPTER X. Frithiof made an Outlaw.
CHAPTER XI. Frithiof fareth to see King Ring and Ingibiorg.
CHAPTER XII. Frithiof saves the King and Queen on the Ice.
CHAPTER XIII. The King sleeps before Frithiof.
CHAPTER XIV. King Ring’s Gift to Frithiof.
CHAPTER XV. Frithiof King in Sogn.
William Morris
William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguably best known as a textile designer, he founded a design partnership which deeply influenced the decoration of churches and homes during the early 20th century. However, he is also considered an important Romantic writer and pioneer of the modern fantasy genre, being a direct influence on authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien. As well as fiction, Morris penned poetry and essays. Amongst his best-known works are The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World’s End (1896). Morris was also an important figure in British socialism, founding the Socialist League in 1884. He died in 1896, aged 62.
CHAPTER I. Of King Belt and Thorstein Vikingson and their Children.
Thus beginneth the tale, telling how that King Beli ruled over Sogn-land; three children had he, whereof Helgi was his first son, and Halfdan his second, but Ingibiorg his daughter. Ingibiorg was fair of face and wise of mind, and she was ever accounted the foremost of the king’s children.
Now a certain strand went west of the firth, and a great stead was thereon, which was called Baldur’s Meads; a Place of Peace was there, and a great temple, and round about it a great garth of pales: many gods were there, but amidst them all was Baldur held of most account. So jealous were the heathen men of this stead, that they would have no hurt done therein to man nor beast, nor might any