The Sea King's Wooing

William Bell Scott (1811−1890)

1860

Watercolour heightened with white on paper

10½ x 13¼ inches (26.5 x 33.5 cm).

Private collection.

'Thou shalt see then how truly, noble souled Maid The ransom of Kings can be won by this blade'. These lines are taken from the poem “The Wooing Song” by the Scottish poet William Motherwell where the Viking King Jarl Egill wooded and bore off Torf Eniar’s fair daughter.

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