Light, dark, and grey: Representation of hero in William Morris’s the Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

Acclaimed and influential, the pre-Raphaelite artist and author William Morris’s long narrative poem The Story of Sigurd and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) fits, at first sight, the Victorian interpretation of the Old Norse world. It is essentially a world deprived of the original context, where th...

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Main Author: Su, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer Netherlands 2018