Motif
awakening of the fire-encircled sleeping valkyrie
awakening_of_the_fire_encircled_sleeping_valkyrie
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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The Nibelungenlied II. THE NIBELUNGENLIED. / THE NIBELUNGENLIED. / THE NIBELUNGENLIED / I. THE NIBELUNGEN SAGA; lines 494-581 confidence: medium
The passage says the Nibelungenlied says nothing of Grani, the ride to Frankenland, or the awakening of Brynhild, but that Siegfried's aid in Gunther's wooing of Brunhild faintly reflects an earlier fire-encircled valkyrie awakening tradition.
The passage states that the Nibelungenlied omits Sigurd's awakening of Brynhild but that Siegfried's aid in Brunhild's wooing faintly preserves the earlier awakening of a fire-encircled valkyrie.
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