A treat

A treat in the form of an illustration from a real camera, rather than that inside my not very flashy mobile phone. Lots and lots of pixels and a lens which can focus them.

And with the illustration being of the pressed flowers found inside the biography of Siegfried mentioned yesterday. Flower pressing being something which I think had more or less died out by the time I was a child but which BH thinks that it might still figure as an activity which qualifies for a badge in the Girl Guides. Is it an alternative activity for all those mid-western housewives who might otherwise be making arty cup cakes?

The rather rapid perusal involved in finding and removing the dried flowers did yield some points of contact with the Siegfried I know from the Nibelungenlied. So he is a knights-in-armour sort of hero from the Rhineland of the middle ages. He has adventures, some of them involving maidens with pigtails and some of them involving monsters, human or otherwise. And at the end of the book he gets carried away and carries off the ring of the Nibelungen, marries his princess and comes to a sticky end. Which sounds to me more like Wagner than Nibelungenlied, so there must be various strands to the story of Siegfried. Maybe it is all rather like Robin Hood or King Arthur over here.