Volker the fiddler. Nibelungen lay. Videl of days of chivalry. Bow
fashioned like sword. Hagen of Tronje. Wilhelm Jordan, in
"Sigfridsage." Henrietta Sontag and the coming Paganini. Wagner's
Volker-Wilhelmj at Bayreuth. Magic fiddles and wonderworking
fiddlers. Grimm's Fairy Tales. Norse folk-lore. English nursery
rhymes. Crickets as fiddlers. Progenitors of violin. The violin of
Queen Elizabeth and her age. Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. Household
of Charles II. Butler, in Hudibras. Viola d'amore in Milwaukee, Wis.
Brescian and Cremonese violin-makers. Early violinists. Value and
history of some violins. Strings and bow. Violin virtuosi from
Corelli to our day. Mad rush for technique.