Siegfried

Siegfried is an opera by Richard Wagner.

Arthur Rackham's illustrations

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  Mime works on a sword for Siegfried.
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  Mime offers food to the young Siegfried.
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  Siegfried studies the animals in the forest.
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  Siegfried looks at his reflection in the brook.
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  Mime comes upon Sieglinde in the forest.
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  The dragon Fafner guards the gold hoard.
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  Wotan visits Mime and offers him his help.
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  Siegfried forges the sword Nothung as Mime prepares a sleeping potion to use on him.
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  Mime cowers in fear as Siegfried holds aloft the sword Nothung.
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  Siegfried slays Fafner.
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  Having slain Fafner, Siegfried tastes his blood and comes to understand the speech of birds.
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  Alberich and Mime argue by Fafner's dead body.
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  Siegfried comes upon the sleeping Brünnhilde.
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  Brünnhilde wakes up and greets the day and Siegfried.
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  Brünnhilde and Siegfried