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SIEGFRIED & THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

BY RICHARD WAGNER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

TRANSLATED BY MARGARET ARMOUR

LONDON  WILLIAM-HEINEMANN

NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY PACE & Co

1911



[Illustration: "Nothung! Nothung!
                Conquering sword!"]




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Nothung! Nothung!
Conquering sword!"

Mime at the anvil

Mime and the infant Siegfried

"And there I learned
What love was like"

Siegfried sees himself in the stream

Mime finds the mother of Siegfried in the forest

"In dragon's form
Fafner now watches the hoard"

Mime and the Wanderer

The forging of Nothung

Siegfried kills Fafner

"The hot blood burns like fire!"

The dwarfs quarrelling over the body of Fafner

"Magical rapture
Pierces my heart;
Fixed is my gaze,
Burning with terror;
I reel, my heart faints and fails!

"Sun, I hail thee!
Hail, O light!
Hail, O glorious day!"

Brünnhilde throws herself into Siegfried's arms

The three Norns

The Norns vanish

Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde in search of adventure

Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune, and
gazes at her with sudden passion

Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with
her

The ravens of Wotan

"The ring upon thy hand--
...