CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
[INTRODUCTION: THE HOUSE OF HUNDING]
CHAPTER II
[THE COMING OF THE STRANGER]
CHAPTER III
[THE STORY OF THE STRANGER]
CHAPTER IV
[THE RECOGNITION]
CHAPTER V
[THE STRIFE OF WOTAN AND FRICKA]
CHAPTER VI
[SIEGMUND'S LOT IS CAST]
CHAPTER VII
[THE FIGHT OF SIEGMUND]
CHAPTER VIII
[THE FLIGHT OF BRUNNHILDE]
CHAPTER IX
[THE SENTENCE OF BRUNNHILDE]
CHAPTER X
[THE SLEEP OF BRUNNHILDE.]
ILLUSTRATIONS
[THE FLIGHT OF THE VALKYRIES] Frontispiece
[OFTEN HAD SHE SAT THERE]
["LADY, I THANK THEE"]
["TO-NIGHT WE ARE HOST AND GUEST"]
[AT THAT HE WRENCHED AT THE SWORD-HILT]
["I GIVE THEE MINE OATH!" SAID HE]
[VERY SLOWLY SHE ARMED HERSELF]
["WOTAN'S SPEAR IS STRETCHED AGAINST THEE, SIEGMUND"]
[BRUNNHILDE BRINGS SIEGLINDE TO THE VALKYRIES' MEETING-PLACE]
[CROUCHING AMONG HER SISTERS]
[THEN TENDERLY HE RAISED HER FROM WHERE SHE KNELT]
PREFACE
In the following pages an attempt has been made to render as closely as possible into English narrative prose the libretto of Wagner's "Valkyrie". The story is one little known to English readers, and even those who are familiar with the gigantic music may find in the story something which, even when rendered into homely prose, will reveal to them some new greatness of the master-mind of its author. It is in this hope that I have attempted this version.