William Morris

**William Morris** (24. mars 1834 – 3. október 1896) var breskur textílhönnuður, listamaður, rithöfundur og hugsjónamaður. Hann skrifaði og gaf út ljóð, skáldsögur og þýðingar á fornritum og miðaldatextum. 

Morris lagði áherslu á varðveita umhverfi fyrir áhrifum af mengun frá iðnaði. Hann hafði mikinn áhuga á germönskum og norrænum fræðum og þýddi ásamt Eiríki Magnússyni margar Íslendingasögur yfir á ensku og endursagði í verkum sínum. Morris hitti Eirík Magnússon árið 1868 og Eiríkur kenndi honum íslensku. Morris gaf út Gunnlaugs sögu Ormstungu og Grettissögu út árið 1869 og Völsungasögu út árið 1870.

Morris samdi mikið af ævintýrasögum sem höfðu áhrif marga breska ævintýrasagnahöfunda eins og Tolkien, C.S. Lewis og James Joyce.

Morris lærði útsaum og þjálfaði konu sína og systur hennar í að sauma út verk sem hann hannaði.

Endurtekið mynstur kemur fyrst fyrir í veggfóðri frá Morris árið 1862 en það var ekki framleitt fyrr en 1864. Árið 1868 hannaði hann fyrstu mynstur sín sérstaklega fyrir efni. 

Morris hannaði tvær leturgerðir sem byggðar voru á fyrirmyndum frá miðöldum.

Safnið William Morris Gallery í Walthamstow í England er helgað ævi og verkum og áhrifum Morris.

## Útgefin verk
### Þýðingar á Íslendingasögum
* *Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong* with Eiríkr Magnússon (1869)
* *The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Rafn the Skald* with Eiríkr Magnússon (1869)
* *Völsung Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda* with Eiríkr Magnússon (1870) (from *[[Völsunga saga|Volsunga saga]]*)
* *Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales* with Eiríkr Magnússon (1875)
**The Saga Library: Done into English out of the Icelandic* with Eiríkr Magnússon, 6 vols (London: Quaritch, 1891-1905).

## Gallery
### Glerverk hönnuð af Morris og framleidd af fyrirtæki hans Morris & Co.

File:David's Charge to Solomon, by Burne-Jones and Morris, Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts.JPG|*David's Charge to Solomon* (1882), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts.
File:Boston Trinity Church 04.jpg|Burne-Jones–designed and Morris & Co.-executed Nativity windows (1882), Trinity Church, Boston
File:USA Massachusetts Boston Trinity Nativity-window.jpg[Burne-Jones–designed and Morris & Co.-executed *The Worship of the [[Magi]]* window (1882), Trinity Church, Boston.
File:USA Massachusetts Boston Trinity-Nativity-detail-2.jpg|Burne-Jones–designed and Morris & Co.-executed *The Worship of the Shepherds* window (1882), Trinity Church, Boston.
File:USA Massachusetts Boston Trinity Nativity-detail-1.jpg|Detail from *The Worship of the Shepherds* window (1882).
File:St Cecilia narthex.jpg|Burne-Jones-designed and Morris & Co.-executed *Saint Cecilia* window at Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Illinois)


### Efni frá Morris & Co.

File:Morris Acanthus Wallpaper 1875.jpg|*Acanthus* wallpaper, 1875
File:Morris Snakeshead printed textile 1876 v 2.jpg|*Snakeshead* printed textile, 1876
File:Morris Peacock and Dragon Fabric 1878 v2.jpg|"Peacock and Dragon" woven wool furnishing fabric, 1878
File:Morris Windrush textile design 1881-83.jpg|Design for *Windrush* printed textile, 1881–83
File:Morris Woodpecker tapestry detail.jpg|Detail of *Woodpecker* tapestry, 1885
File:Galahad grail.jpg|*The Vision of the Holy Grail* tapestry, 1890
File:Embroidered Panel Morris and Company.jpg|*Acanthus* embroidered panel, designed Morris, 1890
File:Strawberrythief.jpg|Strawberry Thief, furnishing fabric, designed Morris, 1883
File:Brooklyn Museum - Wallpaper Sample Book 1 - William Morris and Company - page029.jpg|Wallpaper - Hyacinth, pattern #480 - 1915-17
File:Brooklyn Museum - Wallpaper Sample Book 1 - William Morris and Company - page025.jpg|Wallpaper - Blackberry, pattern #388 - 1915-17
File:Morris Little Flower carpet design detail.jpg|Detail of a watercolour design for the Little Flower carpet showing a portion of the central medallion, by William Morris


### Skrautmunir

File:Rubaiyat Morris Burne-Jones Manuscript.jpg|The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, text and decoration by Morris with illustrations by Burne-Jones, 1870s
File:Morris tiles de Morgan 1876.jpg|Panel of ceramic tiles designed by Morris and produced by William De Morgan, 1876


### Prentgripir

File:Kelmscott Press Typefaces Detail.jpg|Kelmscott Press typefaces and colophon, 1897
File:Wmmorris3248.jpg|William Morris, publisher
File:Kelmscott Press - The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin (first page).jpg|*The Nature of Gothic* by John Ruskin, printed by Kelmscott Press. First page of text, with typical ornamented border
File:Kelmscott Troilus.jpg|Troilus and Criseyde, from the Kelmscott *Chaucer*. Illustration by Burne-Jones and decorations and typefaces by Morris


## Tenglar
* William Morris 150 ár.
* William Morris in Iceland (Guardian 27. mars 2010)
* Works by William Morris í Project Gutenberg.
* [Works by William Morris](http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A(Morris%2C%20William%2C%201834-1896)%20-contributor%3Agutenberg%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts) í Internet Archive. Skannaðar bækur, margar myndskreyttar.
* Works by William Morris at The Online Books Page.
* Works by William Morris at sacred-texts.com, including full text of The Earthly Paradise.
* William Morris Index Entry at Poets' Corner
* The William Morris Internet Archive (marxists.org)
* Biography by J. W. Mackail (''Dictionary of National Biography'', 1901) 
* "William Morris", Stephen Gwynn in *Macmillan's Magazine*, Vol. LXXVIII, May to Oct., 1898, pp.&nbsp;153–160

### Annað
* ''William Morris and his Circle'' 
* ''William Morris Stained Glass''
* Morris at Art Passions'' 
* Morris - The Soul of Arts and Crafts''
* The William Morris Gallery  (London Borough of Waltham Forest)
* The William Morris Society
* A Morris and De Morgan tile panel at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
* The Pre-Raph Pack Discover more about the artists, the techniques they used and a timeline spanning 100 years.
* William Morris online exhibition  at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
* Examples of pages from the Kelmscott Chaucer