Fafnir Collage

This resource, devised by artist and illustrator Lesley Saddington, describes how to make your own 3D dragon collage.

William Morris delighted in story-telling. Some of his favourite stories, called 'sagas', were Icelandic. They told tales of good people and bad people, of kind people and greedy people, stories of families and fights and falling in love.

Fafnir is a character in the Völsunga saga who turns himself into a dragon in order to guard the treasure trove of gold. When Morris founded his own printing press, the Kelmscott Press, he published this saga and he recreated the dragon in the yew hedge in the front garden of Kelmscott Manor. (Nowadays many visitors to Kelmscott Manor think that this dragon looks more like a whale than a dragon. Let us know what you think when you visit!)

Fafnir Collage pdf