The House of the Wolfings

A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse

William Morris

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486610486
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A Gothic tribe on the edge of the forest learns that Rome is coming, and the war-chief's choice is set out in prose and verse in the old manner. Morris — wallpaper designer, socialist, translator of sagas — invented the modern fantasy novel here: Tolkien read him closely, and the debt is plain. This is the book where an imagined people is given its own laws, songs and dead. Sixty plates of castles, hunts and forest landscapes, from Cranach to Kosárek, give the Mark its own weather and walls.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• The House of the Wolfings
• Chapter I—The Dwellings of Mid-mark
• Chapter II—The Flitting of the War-Arrow
• Chapter III—Thiodolf Talketh with the Wood-Sun
• Chapter IV—The House Fareth to the War
• Chapter V—Concerning the Hall-Sun
• Chapter VI—They Talk on the Way to the Folk-Thing
• Chapter VII—They Gather to the Folk-Mote
• Chapter VIII—The Folk-Mote of the Markmen
• Chapter IX—The Ancient Man of the Daylings
• Chapter X—That Carline Cometh to the Roof of the Wolfings
• Chapter XI—The Hall-Sun Speaketh
• Chapter XII—Tidings of the Battle in Mirkwood
• Chapter XIII—The Hall-Sun Saith Another Word
• Chapter XIV—The Hall-Sun Is Careful Concerning the Passes of the Wood
• Chapter XV—They Hear Tell of the Battle on the Ridge
• Chapter XVI—How the Dwarf-Wrought Hauberk Was Brought Away from the Hall of the Daylings
• Chapter XVII—The Wood-Sun Speaketh with Thiodolf
• Chapter XVIII—Tidings Brought to the Wain-Burg
• Chapter XIX—Those Messengers Come to Thiodolf
• Chapter XX—Otter and His Folk Come Into Mid-mark
• Chapter XXI—They Bicker About the Ford
• Chapter XXII—Otter Falls on Against His Will
• Chapter XXIII—Thiodolf Meeteth the Romans in the Wolfing Meadow
• Chapter XXIV—The Goths Are Overthrown by the Romans
• Chapter XXV—The Host of the Markmen Cometh Into the Wild-Wood
• Chapter XXVI—Thiodolf Talketh with the Wood-Sun
• Chapter XXVII—They Wend to the Morning Battle
• Chapter XXVIII—Of the Storm of Dawning
• Chapter XXI—Of Thiodolf’s Storm
• Chapter XXX—Thiodolf Is Borne Out of the Hall and Otter Is Laid Beside Him
• Chapter XXXI—Old Asmund Speaketh Over the War-Dukes: The Dead Are Laid in Mound
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