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    Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
    Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
    Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
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    Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children

    By Mary Macgregor

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    Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children by Mary Macgregor is about the hero-prince Siegfried who treated his subjects with fairness and kindness. Excerpt: "Siegfried was born a Prince and grew to be a hero, a hero with a heart of gold. Though he could fight and was as strong as any lion, he could love too and be as gentle as a child. The father and mother of the hero boy lived in a strong castle near the banks of the great Rhine river. Siegmund, his father, was a rich king, Sieglinde, his mother, a beautiful queen, and dearly did they love their little son Siegfried. The courtiers and the high-born maidens who dwelt in the castle honored the little Prince, and thought him the fairest child in all the land, as indeed he was."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 3, 2019
    ISBN4057664582751
    Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children

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      Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children - Mary Macgregor

      Mary Macgregor

      Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664582751

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I

      MIMER THE BLACKSMITH

      CHAPTER II

      SIEGFRIED WINS THE TREASURE

      CHAPTER III

      SIEGFRIED COMES HOME

      CHAPTER IV

      KRIEMHILD'S DREAM

      CHAPTER V

      SIEGFRIED JOURNEYS TO WORMS

      CHAPTER VI

      SIEGFRIED'S WELCOME TO WORMS

      CHAPTER VII

      SIEGFRIED'S SOJOURN AT WORMS

      CHAPTER VIII

      SIEGFRIED SEES KRIEMHILD

      CHAPTER IX

      SIEGFRIED GOES TO ISENLAND

      CHAPTER X

      SIEGFRIED SUBDUES BRUNHILD

      CHAPTER XI

      SIEGFRIED GOES TO THE CAVE

      CHAPTER XII

      THE WEDDING FEAST

      CHAPTER XIII

      SIEGFRIED GOES HOME WITH KRIEMHILD

      CHAPTER XIV

      SIEGFRIED AND KRIEMHILD GO TO WORMS

      CHAPTER XV

      SIEGFRIED IS SLAIN

      CHAPTER I

      MIMER THE BLACKSMITH

      Table of Contents

      Siegfried was born a Prince and grew to be a hero, a hero with a heart of gold. Though he could fight, and was as strong as any lion, yet he could love too and be as gentle as a child.

      The father and mother of the hero-boy lived in a strong castle near the banks of the great Rhine river. Siegmund, his father, was a rich king, Sieglinde, his mother, a beautiful queen, and dearly did they love their little son Siegfried.

      The courtiers and the high-born maidens who dwelt in the castle honoured the little Prince, and thought him the fairest child in all the land, as indeed he was.

      Sieglinde, his queen-mother, would ofttimes dress her little son in costly garments and lead him by the hand before the proud, strong men-at-arms who stood before the castle walls. Nought had they but smiles and gentle words for their little Prince.

      When he grew older, Siegfried would ride into the country, yet always would he be attended by King Siegmund's most trusted warriors.

      Then one day armed men entered the Netherlands, the country over which King Siegmund ruled, and the little Prince was sent away from the castle, lest by any evil chance he should fall into the hands of the foe.

      Siegfried was hidden away safe in the thickets of a great forest, and dwelt there under the care of a blacksmith, named Mimer.

      Mimer was a dwarf, belonging to a strange race of little folk called Nibelungs. The Nibelungs lived for the most part in a dark little town beneath the ground. Nibelheim was the name of this little town and many of the tiny men who dwelt there were smiths. All the livelong day they would hammer on their little anvils, but all through the long night they would dance and play with tiny little Nibelung women.

      It was not in the little dark town of Nibelheim that Mimer had his forge, but under the trees of the great forest to which Siegfried had been sent.

      As Mimer or his pupils wielded their tools the wild beasts would start from their lair, and the swift birds would wing their flight through the mazes of the wood, lest danger lay in those heavy, resounding strokes.

      But Siegfried, the hero-boy, would laugh for glee, and seizing the heaviest hammer he could see he would swing it with such force upon the anvil that it would be splintered into a thousand pieces.

      Then Mimer the blacksmith would scold the lad, who was now the strongest of all the lads under his care; but little heeding his rebukes, Siegfried would fling himself merrily out of the smithy and hasten with great strides into the gladsome wood. For now the Prince was growing a big lad, and his strength was even as the strength of ten.

      To-day Siegfried was in a merry mood. He would repay Mimer's rebukes in right good fashion. He would frighten the little blacksmith dwarf until he was forced to cry for mercy.

      Clad in his forest dress of deerskins, with his hair as burnished gold blowing around his shoulders, Siegfried wandered away into the depths of the woodland.

      There he seized the silver horn which hung from his girdle and raised it to his lips. A long, clear note he blew, and ere the sound had died away the boy saw a sight which pleased him well. Here was good prey indeed! A bear, a great big shaggy bear was peering at him out of a bush, and as he gazed the beast opened its jaws and growled, a fierce and angry growl.

      Not a whit afraid was Siegfried. Quick as lightning he had caught the great creature in his arms, and ere it could turn upon him, it was muzzled, and was being led quietly along toward the smithy.

      Mimer was busy at his forge sharpening a sword when Siegfried reached the doorway.

      At the sound of laughter the little dwarf raised his head. It was the Prince who laughed. Then Mimer saw the bear,[1] and letting the sword he held drop to the ground with a clang, he ran to hide himself in the darkest corner of the smithy.

      [1] See frontispiece.

      Then Siegfried laughed again. He was no hero-boy to-day, for next he made the big bear hunt the little Nibelung dwarf from corner to corner, nor could the frightened little man escape or hide himself in darkness. Again and again as he crouched in a shadowed corner, Siegfried would stir up the embers of the forge until all the smithy was lighted with a ruddy glow.

      At length the Prince tired of his game, and unmuzzling the bear he chased the bewildered beast back into the shelter of the woodlands.

      Mimer, poor little dwarf, all a-tremble with his fear, cried angrily, 'Thou mayest go shoot if so it please thee, and bring home thy dead prey. Dead bears thou mayest bring hither if thou wilt, but live bears shalt thou leave to crouch in their lair or to roam through

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