The Ring of the Niblungs (Rackham)/Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods

by Richard Wagner

THE RING
OF THE NIBLUNG
A TRILOGY WITH A PRE-
LUDE BY RICHARD WAGNER
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY
MARGARET ARMOUR

 

 

Prelude: The Rhinegold
First Day of the Trilogy: The Valkyrie
Second Day of the Trilogy: Siegfried
Third Day of the Trilogy: The Twilight
of the Gods

II

SIEGFRIED AND
THETWILIGHT
OFTHEGODS

Books Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Uniform with this volume, Price 15s net

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. by William Shakespeare.

RIP VAN WINKLE By Washington Irving

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OF MIRTH

AND MARVELS. by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.

THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG By Richard

Wagner. Translated by Margaret Armour.

I. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

Also

UNDINE. By De la Motte Fouqué. Adapted from

the German by W. L. Courtney.

With 15 Coloured and many Text Illustrations, crown 4to. 7s. 6d. net.

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

by Lewis Carroll. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

With 12 Coloured and several Text Illustrations, crown 8vo. Price 6s. net.

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

“Nothung! Nothung!
Conquering sword!”
See p. 40

SIGFRIED·&·the
TWILIGHT·of·the·GODS

BY · RICHARD·WAGNER
WITH · ILLUSTRATIONS
BY · ARTHUR · RACKHAM

TRANSLATED·BY·MARGARET·ARMOUR

LONDON WILLIAM·HEINEMANN
NEW·YORKDOUBLEDAY·PAGE·&·Co 1911

 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	To face page
“Nothung! Nothung! Conquering sword!" Frontispiece
Mime at the anvil	4
Mime and the infant Siegfried	8
“And there I learned What love was like”	10
Siegfried sees himself in the stream	12
Mime finds the mother of Siegfried in the forest	14
“In dragon's form Fafner now watches the hoard”	22
Mime and the Wanderer	24
The forging of Nothung	34
Siegfried kills Fafner	56
“The hot blood burns like fire!”	58
The dwarfs quarrelling over the body of Fainer	62
“Magical rapture Pierces my heart; Fixed is my gaze, Burning with terror; I reel, my heart faints and fails!”	86
“Sun, I hail thee! Hail, O light! Hail, O glorious day!”	88
Brünnhilde throws herself into Siegfried’s arms	98
The three Norns	104
The Norns vanish	108
Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde in search of adventure	110
Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune, and gazes at her with sudden passion	120
Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with her	124
The ravens of Wotan	128
The ring upon thy hand— . . . ah, be implored! For Wotan fling it away!”	130
The wooing of Grimhilde, the mother of Hagen	136
“Swear to me, Hagen, my son!”	138
“O wife betrayed, I will avenge ‘Thy trust deceived”	154
“Though gaily ye may laugh, In grief ye shall be left, For, mocking maids, this ring Ye ask shall never be yours”	162
“Siegfried! Siegfried! Our warning is true: Flee, oh, flee from the curse!”	164
Siegfried's death
Brünnhilde on Grane leaps on to the funeral pyre of Siegfried	180
The Rhine-Maidens obtain possession of the ring and bear it off in triumph	182

 

 

Siegfried

 

CHARACTERS
Siegfried
Mime
The Wanderer
Alberich
Fafner
Erda
Brünnhilde

SCENES OF ACTION
II‍Act I. A Cave in a Wood
I‍Act II. Depths of the Wood
Act III. Wild Region at the Foot of a Rocky Mountain;
Afterwards: Summit of “Brünnhilde’s Rock”

 

The Twilight
of the Gods

 

CHARACTERS
Siegfried
Gunther
Hagen
Alberich
Brünnhilde
Gutrune
Waltraute
The Three Norns
The Rhine-Maidens
Vassals
Women

SCENES OF ACTION
Prelude: On the Valkyries’ Rock
IIII‍Act I. The Hall of Gunther’s Dwelling on the Rhine,
The Valkyries’ Rock
III‍Act II. In Front of Gunther’s Hall
II‍Act III. A Wooded Region on the Rhine. Gunther’s Hall