Set among the pagan Norse, this verse tragedy weaves the myth of the wolf Fenris, bound by the gods, into the lives of a temple’s priests and of Thordis, a woman whose vitality draws everyone around her. Odin and the old powers shadow each scene, from a tribal temple to a dim stone prison chamber.
An ambitious American poetic drama of 1905, for readers drawn to Norse myth on the stage. Download the free EPUB.