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A comprehensive guide to Wagner's THE VALKYRIE (Die Walküre), featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.

Fisher, Burton D. --- Nibelungen -- Drama. --- Valkyries (Norse mythology) -- Drama.

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"Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war - to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. Rather than their death being futile, it is their destiny and good fortune, determined by divine beings. The fateful agency of women is widespread in Norse sources. Norse sagas and Viking myths tell stories of war and strife, loyalty and betrayal, murder and revenge, privation and success. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities and families, for better or worse. But in some spheres, women are systematically oppressed or excluded because of their gender, and the sagas communicate heartbreaking stories of girls' and women's traumatic experiences that resonate strongly today. Valkyrie will introduce readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, this book will also uncover the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women."--

Women, Viking --- Women --- Valkyries (Norse mythology) --- History. --- History

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Mythology, Norse. --- Mythologie nordique --- Mythology, Norse --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology

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Les poèmes mythologiques et héroïques, la version en prose de Snorri Sturluson (le plus grand écrivain et mythographe islandais du Moyen-Âge, 1178-1241) de l’Edda sont les sources littéraires de cette étude mythologique. Chaque dieu est présenté avec ses attributs et ses fonctions à la faveur des textes qui le concernent et des mythes qui s’y rattachent sans faire l’impasse sur les incertitudes et les doutes de la recherche passée et actuelle. S’étendant sur 2 500 ans et sur un espace vivifié par les Vikings qui va du Groenland à Constantinople, du Nord de la Suède à Gibraltar, ce corpus de croyances païennes offre naturellement de singulières distorsions et présente cependant de confondantes continuités thématiques. À l’aide de l’archéologie, l’histoire, la littérature, l’onomastique et la linguistique, entre autres sciences, cet ouvrage fait non seulement le point sur les connaissances actuelles, mais encore bat en brèche certaines interprétations traditionnelles qui voudraient privilégier le côté martial alors que la civilisation où s’est développée cette mythologie a pour trait fondamental la troisième fonction dumézilienne.

Gods, Norse. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Norse gods --- runes --- Moyen-Âge --- mythologie --- Edda --- religion --- viking