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Jan 30, 2019 · Felce assesses not only seven sagas in some detail, but also Morris’s long and short poems influenced by the sagas, journals of two trips to Iceland in 1871 and 1873, and his lectures about Icelandic culture. Felce also provides the ON for the saga texts and word-choices he discusses, as well as his own ‘idiomatic’ translations.
Mar 11, 2016 · LITERAL TRANSLATION. BY IAN FELCE. This article examines the style that William Morris first developed for his translations from Old Norse between 1868 and 1876, and further refined in the early 1890s during. his work on The Saga Library. After demonstrating how Morris gradually honed and.
At a climactic moment in Laxdala saga, one of the most popular of the sagas of Icelanders ( Íslendingasögur ), the hero Kjartan Óláfsson challenges his beloved foster-brother and cousin Bolli .orleiksson to decide whether or not to attempt to kill him in vengeance.
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by Ian Felce. An examination of how greatly the sagas and other literature of Iceland shaped the poems of William Morris. The work of William Morris (1834-1896) was hugely influenced by the medieval sagas and poetry of Iceland; in particular, they inspired his long poems "The Lovers of Gudrun" and Sigurd the Volsung.
Dec 7, 2018 · December 7, 2018. Read this issue. In this review. WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE ICELANDIC SAGAS. 214pp. D. S. Brewer. £60. Ian Felce. No reader of William Morris’s work can be unaware of his huge involvement with Old Norse literature, and its home, Iceland – what his biographer Fiona MacCarthy called the “central obsession” of his life.
Apr 5, 2022 · Ian Felce is the author of William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming) and several articles on medieval literature and its reception in post-medieval English literature. He is particularly interested in how medieval narratives have been transformed to meet the needs and priorities of later writers.
