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Title: Stories of Siegfried
Told to the Children

Author: Mary MacGregor

Illustrator: Granville Fell

Release Date: August 3, 2008 [EBook #26181]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Then Mimer saw the bear, (see page 4)]

TOLD TO THE CHILDREN SERIES

EDITED BY LOUEY CHISHOLM

STORIES OF

SIEGFRIED

TOLD TO THE CHILDREN BY

MARY MACGREGOR

WITH PICTURES BY

GRANVILLE FELL

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

* * * * *

TO

DENIS

* * * * *

Dear Denis,--Here is a story that I found in an old German poem called
the Nibelungenlied. The poem is full of strange adventure, adventure
of both tiny dwarf and stalwart mortal.

Some of these adventures will fill this little book, and already I can
see you sitting in the nursery as you read them.

The door is opened but you do not look up. 'Denis! Denis!' You are
called, but you do not hear, for you are not really in the nursery any
longer.

You have wandered away to Nibelheim, the home of the strange little
people of whom you are reading, and you have ears only for the harsh
voices of the tiny Nibelungs, eyes only for their odd, wrinkled faces.

Siegfried is the merry hero of the Nibelungenlied. I wonder will you
think him as brave as French Roland or as chivalrous as your English
favourite, Guy of Warwick? Yet even should you think the German hero
brave and chivalrous as these, I can hardly believe you will read and
re-read this little book as often as you read and re-read the volumes
which told you abou