The original etext for this book was prepared by J. C. Byers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team for Project Gutenberg. The text was edited and formatting was added by Lisa Ripperton, using as copytext, The Story of Siegfried, by James Baldwin, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.

Since this book was first published before 1923, it is in the public domain in the United States. By U.S. law, it entered the public domain 75 years after its first publication.

Several black and white illustrations, by Howard Pyle, are included in the text.

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