The House of the Wolfings

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The House of the Wolfings

by William Morris

Equal parts romantic, mysterious, and blood-soaked, "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 invading Roman Empire.

Following the luminous valkyrie Wood-Sun, the war chief Thiodolf (β€˜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. English utopian socialist polymath William Morris’s "The House of the Wolfings" is widely recognized as major influence on contemporary fantasy, especially on the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Rarely in print, this unique edition from Hyldyr features a new map by Portland-based duo Leodrune, a new introduction from folklorist Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran, and supplementary items useful for approaching this historic publication, including illustrations by Jacqui Alberts Lund.

The House of the Wolfings

by William Morris

Equal parts romantic, mysterious, and blood-soaked, "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 invading Roman Empire.

Following the luminous valkyrie Wood-Sun, the war chief Thiodolf (β€˜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. English utopian socialist polymath William Morris’s "The House of the Wolfings" is widely recognized as major influence on contemporary fantasy, especially on the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Rarely in print, this unique edition from Hyldyr features a new map by Portland-based duo Leodrune, a new introduction from folklorist Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran, and supplementary items useful for approaching this historic publication, including illustrations by Jacqui Alberts Lund.

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    368 pages. 5x7. Perfect binding. Printed in the USA.

    2nd Edition.

 

From the publisher:

"Hyldyr is an independent and experimental publishing house based in Olympia, Washington state, USA. We combine the efforts of academics and artists to produce unique, beautiful, and scholarship-grounded publications.

There’s nothing else like usβ€”by design. Founded in late 2021 with our first publications arriving the summer of 2023, we designed Hyldyr to produce high-quality and extremely unique editions built to withstand scholastic scrutiny, to function as art objects, and to provide our readers with keys to hidden worlds.

We are heavily inspired by the works of English polymath William Morris, do-it-yourself movements, and our evergreen mountainous surroundings. We place a particular emphasis on historical linguistics and folklore studies and all of our publications in some way or another fall within the triangle of art, ecology, and folklore. We believe the world is a vast place full of wonders.

While we design our publications to be as approachable as possible, Hyldyr’s roots are academic: Hyldyr developed out of the web-based resource project Mimisbrunnr.info, itself an evolution of a student-led reading circle originally sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Georgia for several years in the 2010s.

Quality and humanity come first at Hyldyr: We never use print-on-demand services, we explicitly forbid the use of generative AI in our publications, we sell our books only to independent bookstores and educational institutions (like museums), and we always aim to go a step beyond traditional publishing houses in everything we do."