THE RING
OF THE NIBLUNG

THE RHINEGOLD: PRELUDE
THE VALKYRIE: FIRST DAY OF THE TRILOGY
SIEGFRIED: SECOND DAY OF THE TRILOGY
THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: THIRD DAY OF THE TRILOGY

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

CONTENTS
SIEGFRIED
ACT 1
ACT 2
ACT 3
THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
PRELUDE
ACT 1
ACT 2
ACT 3

"Nothung! Nothung!
Conquering sword!

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Nothung! Nothung!
Conquering sword!plate 1

Mime at the anvilplate 2

Mime and the infant Siegfriedplate 3

"And there I learned
What love was like"plate 4

Siegfried sees himself in the streamplate 5

Mime finds the mother of Siegfried in the forestplate 6

"In dragon's form
Fafner now watches the hoard"plate 7

Mime and the Wandererplate 8

The forging of Nothungplate 9

Siegfried kills Fafnerplate 10

"The hot blood burns like fire!"plate 11

The dwarfs quarrelling over the body of Fafnerplate 12

"Magical rapture
Pierces my heart;
Fixed is my gaze,
Burning with terror;
I reel, my heart faints and fails!plate 13

"Sun, I hail thee!
Hail, O light!
Hail, O glorious day!"plate 14

Brünnhilde throws herself into Siegfried's armsplate 15

The three Nornsplate 16

The Norns vanishplate 17

Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde in search of adventureplate 18

Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune,
and gazes at her with sudden passionplate 19

Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with herplate 20

The ravens of Wotanplate 21