Opera Stories from Wagner
By Florence Akin

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Siegfried Goes to Fight the Dragon

“Get up, you coward!” cried Siegfried.

“Now tell me what that thing is that I do not know. Fear? What is fear? Why did you not teach it to me?”

The wicked dwarf slipped to Siegfried’s side.

“I will teach you. Come with me. I will show you a horrible serpent, lying at the door of Hate Cavern.

“There you will learn what fear is, if you can learn it any place in this world.

“Have you never seen anything that made you shiver from head to foot and made your heart beat fast?”

“I never have,” calmly answered Siegfried. “Take me quickly, Mimi. I am ready to learn.”

At every step Mimi chuckled to himself:–

“The ring is mine! At last the ring is mine! Now all the world shall kneel at my feet!”

“When he had gone as far as he dared, he pointed out the rest of the way to Siegfried.

“Just through here,” he said. “And I shall go back now. When the dragon sees you it will be a terrible struggle! I shall wait anxiously for you, my Siegfried!”

But as Siegfried vanished from sight, he rubbed his black hands together and laughed:–

“Ah, it will be luck for Mimi if Siegfried and the dragon kill each other!”

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More About the Stories  •  The Rhine-Gold  •  Alberich  •  The Careless Rhine-Daughters  •  The Theft  •  The Sad Rhine-Daughters  •  A Castle On the Rhine  •  The Morning  •  The Payment  •  Loki  •  Youth or Age?  •  Nibelheim  •  The Best Smith in Nibelheim  •  The Master  •  The Boaster  •  The Wishing-Cap  •  The Trick  •  The Curse  •  The Greedy Fafner  •  A Slave to Gold  •  The Beautiful Valhalla  •  The Walkuere  •  The Valiant Siegmund  •  Hunding’s Wife  •  Hunding  •  The War-Maidens  •  Wotan’s Wife  •  Wotan and Brunhilde  •  Off to the Battlefield  •  The Flight  •  The Punishment  •  The Sleep  •  The Magic Fire  •  Siegfried  •  The Dragon  •  A Baby in the Forest  •  Mimi and the Baby  •  Siegfried and His Friends  •  The Broken Sword  •  A Big Brown Bear  •  Siegfried and Mimi  •  Siegfried Mends His Father’s Sword  •  Siegfried Goes to Fight the Dragon  •  A Wood-Bird’s Song  •  Siegfried and the Dragon  •  A Change Comes Over Siegfried  •  Mimi Has a Surprise  •  Mimi and Alberich Stop to Quarrel Too Long  •  Siegfried Reaches the Mountain  •  Siegfried Learns What Fear Is  •  The Awakening  •  Goetterdaemmerung  •  A Song of the Present  •  A Song of the Future  •  A Pledge of Love  •  The Doom of Valhalla  •  Love

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