Baldwin retells the legend of Siegfried for young readers, drawing on the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied: the boy apprenticed to Mimer the smith, the horse Greyfell, the cursed gold and the dragon Fafnir, the sleeping Brunhild, and the court of King Gunther and his sister Kriemhild in the land of the Nibelungs.
A stirring introduction to the northern hero cycle behind Wagner’s Ring. Download the free EPUB.