'Siegfried's death', 1924. Artist: Arthur Rackham

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'Siegfried's death', 1924. Illustration from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. Siegfried, distracted by Wotan's ravens, is then stabbed in the back, which Brunnhilde has informed them is the only way he can be killed, by Hagen. From Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods). From a private collection.

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