The Hollow Land

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The Hollow Land by William Morris includes the question "Do you know where it is", and a speaker says of the Hollow Land, "I have been looking for it now so long". One passage tells of Swanhilda, who smote the speaker's brother across the mouth with a gilded sceptre, and the speaker's own small heart swelled with rage. The text says that when Swanhilda had been queen three years, she suborned many of King Urrayne's knights and lords, and slew her husband as he slept.

In another passage a speaker asks, "Dear friends, where are your old men's hearts gone to now?", and asks whether it is "so hard to die once for all". One passage describes a car on which lay the King, whose head and hands were bare, wearing a surcoat, half purple and half scarlet, strewn with golden stars.

About the author

William Morris

William Morris (1834-1896) was an English poet, designer, and socialist whose wallpapers and textiles helped define the Arts and Crafts movement. Late in life he turned to prose romances set in imagined lands, and those books are now regarded as foundations of modern fantasy literature.