The Story of the Dwellers at Eyr1871 Accession number: 1920P92 Red leather bound book; hand illustrated in pen and ink, watercolour and gold leaf on Whatman paper. Width: 260 mm Height: 365 mm InformationWilliam Morris had been fascinated by medieval illuminated manuscripts since childhood, and as a student at Oxford had studied the manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, and later at the British Museum. Between 1870 and 1895 he produced some twenty books which he wrote out and decorated himself. 'The Story of the Dwellers at Eyr' is his translation of the Eyrbtggja Saga, the first of the Norse sagas he had read with the Icelandic scholar Eirikr Magnusson. The Bodleian Library own an earlier Morris manuscript of the same story.
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