The Story of Siegfried

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The Story of Siegfried is a book by James Baldwin. The Fore Word says that when the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. Siegfried takes the sword again, breaks it into many pieces, and for three days welds it in a white-hot fire, tempering it with milk and oatmeal.

Some fellow-pupils afterwards tell how they had seen a one-eyed man, long-bearded, and clad in a cloud-gray kirtle, and wearing a sky-blue hood, talking with Siegfried at the smithy door. A section headed Adventure XIII, The Story of Balder, speaks of mirth in King Gunther’s dwelling, for the time of the Yule-feast had come. Kriemhild begins to speak of returning to the land of the Nibelungens, but Ute, her aged mother, cannot bear to part with her and begs her to stay, for a while at least, in the now desolate Burgundian castle.

About the author

James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels.