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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung

William Morris

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Double9 Books LLP
Año de edición:
2024
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Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9789360461478
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William Morris’s 'The Story of Sigurd the Volsung' is an epic story that makes use of Norse myths and the Volsunga Saga to inform a story of bravery, tragedy, and supernatural forces. Morris, an English writer with many competencies, wrote a poetic and bright tale about the famous Norse hero Sigurd that got here out in 1876. The story is set Sigurd, the courageous dragon-slayer, and it has parts approximately love, betrayal, and fate. The principal plot of this story is Sigurd’s look for fame and the cursed ring of energy, as well as his doomed love affair with Brynhild. Morris brings returned the grandeur and seriousness of old sagas via his precise fashion of storytelling, which is marked via archaic language and poetic richness. Morris’s works are critical due to the fact they had an impact at the Arts and Crafts motion, in addition to having thrilling memories. Along with writing, the author, who changed into an outstanding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, delivered his own drawings to the paintings, ensuing in a clean blend of writing and art. 'The Story of Sigurd the Volsung' remains one of the maximum well-known works of Victorian literature. It suggests how determined Morris turned into to carry returned medieval literary conventions and provides to human beings’s hobby in Norse mythology.

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