story fall story fall epic poem lines tells tragic story drawn norse hero son equivalent wagner ring wife sprang fascination legend extended years author youth resulted literary scholarly treatments story morris favorite poems enthusiastically praised contemporary critics figures recent years rated highly scholars succeeded finding wide readership account great length archaic seen influence fantasy writers story available modern original form cut version critical edition synopsis book poem opens marriage king daughter king feast interrupted arrival stranger god disguise drives sword tree trunk tries draw sword son man disappointed takes new wife home inviting visit killed sons taken prisoner captivity killed wolf apart escapes forest sends sons help family accepts kill burn hall return ancestral home hall marries goes abroad brother kills return poisoned turned instead marries killed battle pregnant taken live hall king denmark book gives birth raised old man grows asks horse king bids choose likes best takes best horse names urged attack dragon guards gold treasure curse possess says originally human dragon brother gold belongs tries fails forge adequate sword produces shattered fragments sword inherited fragments mighty sword named wrath makes way kills drinks blood eats heart gives power understand voices birds read hearts men understands intends kill kills takes treasure journey comes blaze slopes rides straight comes unharmed heart fire finds beautiful sleeping woman clad armour wakes tells left punishment pledge places ring finger leaves book iii scene changes court king daughter dream encounters beautiful ominous falcon takes breast anxious learn meaning dream rides visit tells marry king life war death returns home declare love rides court joins making war winning great glory witch mother gives makes fall love completely spell marries sets win brother visiting time disguised penetrating fire surrounds reminds promised overcome supernatural fire reluctantly marry goes land carries promise distraught tragic outcome tells trick unwanted wedding urges brothers kill murders lies bed dying throws sword kills leaves filled remorse commits suicide burned single funeral book widowed marries brother king years pass memories fade vengeance reminds urges win invites surviving brothers feast arrive threatens death treasure worst battle breaks hall brothers overwhelmed superior force tied killed holds victory feast end court lie sleeping hall having lost loves burns hall kills sword thrust throws cliff death genesis morris came story tale told later called young man read summary northern mythology favourite book paradise included story daughter taken began learn scholar embarked series collaborative translations classics published saga story claiming preface great story north race tale greeks composition working prose translation morris wrote head write epic clearly verse render best parts version thing existing morris visited iceland aware writing wrote look short bring tremendous world wide subject opera degraded forms art idea sandy haired german tenor simplest words typical express morris began work october completing following year end poem extended lines took corresponding poems basic sources felt free alter thought necessary poem movement feminine keeping theme morris good deal possible words origin resulted difficult archaic involving lines folk war wrought better steel heaven man folk ready way critical reception according morris daughter work held highly wished remembered contemporary reviewers agreed america atlantic monthly compared king writing second great english epic generation ranks order time fully equals monumental work force story told unity continuity interest academy style adopted luxurious word spirited earlier works literary world agreed work morris genius going predict immediate reception certain eventually place great english tongue note caution reaction 19th century reading public sounded strongly critics wrote noble poem doubt meet ready appreciation sympathy country question easily disposed thought morris greatest achievement worried choice metre thought effect unfavourable review complained narrative seldom rises memory finds little carry away ear particularly repulsed dark age outlook believed morris adopted poem like reflects hard realism obsolete code ethics condition society finds key nineteenth century feeling deprived strongest claim interest sympathetic response moral religious sentiment readers appeal intellect work art successful attempt antiquarian restoration admired applauded taken nation heart contrast believed morris method reproduce antique felt feel modern thought emotion morris death interest poems began fade enthusiasts continued speak favour wrote remains masterpiece sustained power young called best poem know according greatest poem great poem english inspired norse literature went far greatest epic homer novelist acknowledging morris tells story endless invention brilliant detail complained poem thames heroism conveyed sense tragedy wide readership contemporary tend depend judge opinion morris verse general find length archaic putting modern critics agree morris finest poem editions poem published white november date appeared imprint issued second edition book brought turner years morris death revised text published edition limited paper copies copies wood cuts sir issued edition passages replaced prose firm reprinted original version volume collected works introduction morris absence critical edition generally cited scholars recent years frequently reprinted turner scott version influence later fantasy writers morris remained english translation saga version influenced writers adapted red fairy book read student days letter mentions wished imitate morris works version story legend published posthumously compares morris legend contrast morris work written heavily archaic difficult penetrate prose recently published draft closer style content heroic authors inspired directly cycle following morris lead example published translation myths wolf age fight right world war composer set music words taken story producing song fight right dedicated members fight right movement pro war organisation dedicated continuation war victory words deemed fitting express idea
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