Complete works of willia.., p.835
Complete Works of William Morris, page 835
“It came to pass,” says the ancient forgotten author of the Volsunga Saga, when he has to tell of the death of the father of King Volsung, “that he fell sick and got his death, being minded to go home to Odin, a thing much desired of many folk in those days.” With no such desire had this last inheritor of the Viking spirit approached his end. To be, “though men call you dead, a part and parcel of the living wisdom of all things,” still to live somewhere in the larger life of this and no other world, such had been his desire, such his faith and hope throughout the loneliness and fixedness in which he had passed his mortal days. He might seem, now the entanglement of life was snapped, to have resumed his place among the lucid ranks that, still sojourning yet still moving onward, enter their appointed rest and their native country unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected, and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival.
St George’s Churchyard, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire — Morris’ final resting place
Morris’ grave
William Morris, Complete Works of William Morris
