Stories from Wagner Told to the Children

The stories which I have retold for you in this little book are not new. They are very, very old, and were known and loved by many people, both big and little, hundreds of years before Wagner was born. In the old far-off days there were very few books, and as each book cost a great deal of money not many people could afford to buy them.

But in these days there were plenty of stories even though books were few. And the best story-tellers were the minstrels or singers who wandered from village...