Image:Ring45.jpg

[edit] Subject

Having slain Fafner, Siegfried tastes his blood and comes to understand the speech of birds.

[edit] Author

Illustration by Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) to Richard Wagner's Siegfried.

[edit] Source

The immediate source of this image as uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons is:

http://www.artpassions.net/cgi-bin/rackham.pl?../galleries/rackham/ring//home/haukur/rackham/ring45.jpg

Originally the image was published in the following book:

• Wagner, Richard (translated by Margaret Amour) (1911). Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. London:William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page.

[edit] Licencing

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