The Sundering Flood

The Sundering Flood

by William Morris
The Sundering Flood

The Sundering Flood

by William Morris

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Overview

The Sundering Flood is an amazing fictional fantasy book written by William Morris. This book is such a great work that many modern fantasy authors have cited it as being the first to combine a fantastical setting with a supernatural aspect. A lovely story about love, separation, and how things turn out. Morris takes a further step back in time with The Sundering Flood, including thematic and artistic aspects from the Norse sagas. The narrative opens with lovers Osberne and Elfhild, who reside on opposing banks of an immersive river known as the Sundering Flood. The story takes a turn when Osberne, who is heartbroken by Elfhild's disappearance during a Red Skinner invasion, takes up his magical sword Board Cleaver and enrolls himself in the army of Longshaw, where he helps overturn the despotic monarch and merchant plutocracy that dominate the city at the mouth of the river. Will Osberne and Elfhild ever meet again? How will Osberne get successful to get his love back? To get answers to these questions, readers should read this amazing story!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781481170789
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 12/04/2012
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

William Morris was born in 1834 in Walthamstow, England. He was one of the great all-rounders, such as a poet, painter, author, translator, political scholar, social reformer, designer, and publisher. The organisations and movements he established ranged from the Arts and Crafts Movement to the Socialist Federation to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He started his writing career at Oxford University, where he contributed to and funded the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. After the Socialist League moved too far from Morris's brand of freedom socialism for him to stay a part of it, he dedicated himself to writing. Initially, these were stories of ancient Germanic legends, and then "Here Be Dragons" became a series of completely fantasy novels, beginning with The Wood Beyond the World and also The Well at the World's End.

Table of Contents


I. Of a river called the Sundering Flood, and of the folks that dwelt thereby
II. Of Wethermel and the child Osberne
III. Wolves harry the flock
IV. Surly John falls out with the goodman
V. Osberne slays the wolves
VI. They fare to the Cloven Mote
VII. Of a newcomer, and his gift to Osberne
VIII. The goodman gets a new hired man
IX. The Bight of the Cloven Knoll
X. Osberne and Elfhild hold converse together
XI. Osberne shoots a gift across the Flood
XII. Of a guest called Waywearer
XIII. Steelhead gives Osberne the sword Board-cleaver
XIV. Steelhead takes leave of Osberne
XV. Surly John brings a guest to Wethermel
XVI. Hardcastle would seize Wethermel
XVII. Osberne slayeth Hardcastle
XVIII. Osberne tells Elfhild of the killing of Hardcastle
XIX. The winter passes, and Elfhild tells of the death of her kinswoman
XX. Osberne fares to East Cheaping and brings gifts for Elfhild
XXI. Warriors from East Cheaping ride into the Dale
XXII. Osberne takes leave of Elfhild
XXIII. Osberne is chosen captain of the Dalesmen
XXIV. A skirmish with the Baron of Deepdale in the marshes
XXV. Stephen tells of an adventure in the camp of the Foemen
XXVI. They bring the Baron into East Cheaping
XXVII. They parley from the walls
XXVIII. The Baron of Deepdale makes peace
XXIX. Osberne and his men return to Wethermel
XXX. Osberne goes to the trysting-place
XXXI. They meet through autumn and winter
XXXII. Foemen among the West Dalers
XXXIII. Osberne seeks tidings of Elfhild
XXXIV. Osberne sorrows for the loss of Elfhild
XXXV.berne seeks counsel of Steelhead
XXXVI. The staves which Osberne taught to the Dalesmen
XXXVII. Osberne takes leave of Wethermel
XXXVIII. Osberne parts fron Stephen the Eater
XXXIX. Osberne gets him a new master
XL. Osberne rides with Sir Godrick
XLI. They joust with the Knight of the Fish
XLII. They deliver the thorpedwellers from the Black Skinners
XLIII. They come to the edge of the Wood Masterless
XLIV. They reach Longshaw, and Osberne gets him a new name
XLV. The Red Lad scatters the host of the Barons
XLVI. Osberne enters the City of the Sundering Flood
XLVII. The Battle in the Square
XLVIII. Sir Godrick is chosen Burgreve of the City
XLIX. The Red Lad takes leave of Sir Godrick
L. The Red Lad speaks privily with Sir Godrick
LI. Osberne is beguiled by felons
LII. The meeting of Osberne and Elfhild
LIII. They come to Wethermel, and the Carline begins a tale
LIV. The Blue Knight buys the Maiden of the Chapman
LV. The Blue Knight talks with the Maiden by the way
LVI. They come to Brookside
LVII. The Maiden bears tidings of a young champion at Longshaw
LVIII. The Blue Knight and his host leave Brookside
LIX. The Maiden and the Carline flee to the Grey Sisters
LX. They fall in with three Chapmen
LXI. They escape from the Chapmen by the Carline's wizardy
LXII. The Carline endeth her tale
LXIII. Osberne and Elfhild make themselves known to their people
LXIV. The Lip of the Sundering Flood
LXV. A friend at need
LXVI. The Lord of Longshaw gathereth force


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