The Sundering Flood

Once a mighty river ran south into the sea and at the mouth thereof rose agreat and rich city which had been builded and had waxed and thriven becauseof the gr... » 

Once a mighty river ran south into the sea and at the mouth thereof rose agreat and rich city which had been builded and had waxed and thriven becauseof the great and excellent haven which the river made there where it flowedinto the sea. It was like looking at a huge wood of barked and smoothened firtrees when one saw the masts of the ships that lay in this haven.And up this river ran the flood of the tide and it ran a long way up sofar that the biggest of roundships might fare up its course . . .So begins The Sundering Flood a fantasy first published just after the deathof its author. In its pages the visionary William Morris 18341896 unveilswith a poetic command of the English language and a sure knowledge of theMedieval world a fantasy of courage and love of a hero with a magical sworda land of dwarves and a romantic divide which is the flooding tide itself. «