Published in 1876, this is Morris's poetic retelling for English readers of what he called "the Great Story of the North", that of the hero Sigurd, which Morris regarded as at least as important as the better known Homeric stories. He based his energetic and dramatic version on the Icelandic sagas, at the same time that Wagner was using the German version, in which the hero is Siegfried, as the basis for his operatic cycle, "The Ring". Seldom reprinted, Sigurd is a poem to which Morris attached the highest importance.
- ISBN10 1855062534
- ISBN13 9781855062535
- Publish Date 1 July 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
- Edition Facsimile of 1876 ed
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 326
- Language English