Equal parts romantic, mysterious, and blood-soaked, William Morris’s legendary and shockingly influential novel The House of the Wolfings is a unique, Old Norse-inspired tale of the ferocious resistance of a group of pagan Gothic peoples against the imperial designs of the ever-hungry, invading Roman Empire. Following the plight of the mysterious Wood-Sun, her lover the war chief Thiodolf (‘the wolf of the people’), and their daughter the Hall-Sun, the Wolfings and their surrounding community band together to fight a powerful, common foe. The House of the Wolfings is widely recognized as core influence on contemporary fantasy fiction, especially on the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien, who took direct inspiration from it and its sequel, The Roots of the Mountains. Rarely in print and long neglected, this unique edition features historical commentary from philologist Joseph S. Hopkins, original art from Jacqui Alberts Lund and Leodrune, and a new introduction from folklorist Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran, along with various other supplementary items.

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First edition
limited to 99 hand-numbered copies
307 pages. 5x7.
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Second edition
368 pages. 5x7.
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