LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Nothung! Nothung! Conquering sword!	p. title
Mime at the anvil	p. 4
Mime and the infant Siegfried	p. 6
"And there I learned What love was like"	p. 8
Siegfried sees himself in the stream	p. 10
Mime finds the mother of Siegfried in the forest	p. 12
"In dragon's form Fafner now watches the hoard"	p. 28
Mime and the Wanderer	p. 30
The forging of Nothung	p. 32
Siegfried kills Fafner	p. 34
"The hot blood burns like fire!"	p. 52
The dwarfs quarrelling over the body of Fafner	p. 54
"Magical rapture     Pierces my heart;     Fixed is my gaze,     Burning with terror; I reel, my heart faints and fails!	p. 88
"Sun, I hail thee!     Hail, O light! Hail, O glorious day!	p. 90
p. v
Brünnhilde throws herself into Siegfried's arms	p. 92
The three Norns	p. 97
The Norns vanish	p. 112
Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde in search of adventure	p. 114
Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune, and gazes at her with sudden passion	p. 116
Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with her	p. 121
The ravens of Wotan	p. 136
The ring upon thy hand--	p. 138
The wooing of Grimhilde, the mother of Hagen	p. 140
"Swear to me, Hagen, my son!"	p. 142
O wife betrayed	p. 160
Though gaily ye may laugh	p. 162
Siegfried! Siegfried!	p. 164
Siegfried's death	p. 166
Brünnhilde on Grane leaps on to the fumeral pyre of Siegfried	p. 181
The Rhine-Maidens obtain possession of the ring and bear it off in triumph	p. 182