Here’s a review of William Morris’ The House of the Wolfings, which I wrote originally on Medieval Otaku. Fans of Tolkien should definitely be interested in this book.
William Morris’s The House of the Wolfings will stand as my medieval book of the month. Though published at the end of the 19th century and set prior to the Middle Ages, it reads very much like a Viking saga–even if the prose is more ornate than the saga writers tended to use. William Morris numbers as one of those forgotten pre-Tolkien fantasy authors. I first became interested in him when I heard of how Tolkien borrowed the name Mirkwood from the book under review. The House of the Wolfings has not disappointed me in the least.
The story appears to be set around the first century AD and concerns the Roman invasion of Germania, but the clans of the Mirkwood are fictional. The hero of this epic, Thiodolf, leads the Men of the Mirkwood against the invading Romans, and some fantastic elements include the prophecies of the goddess…
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