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Valkyries Summary
381 words, approx. 1 pages
VALKYRIES, supernatural female figures of Norse myth and literature, share many features with the dísir, fylgjur, hamingjur, Norns, and landvættir in the extant texts, and there is little terminological consistency. A primary function of...
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Valkyries : Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
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(German Walküren; also as Valkyrien; Old Norse valkyrja=‘she who selects the dead’) Supernatural female beings commissioned by the god → Odin to intervene in battles and bring heroes doomed to die (Einherjer) up to Valhalla,...
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In Norse mythology the valkyries (Old Norse Valkyrja "Choosers of the Slain") are dísir, minor female deities, who served Odin. The valkyries' purpose was to choose the most heroic of those who had died in battle and to carry them off to Valhalla where...


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Opera News
Wagner: The Valkyrie
05/01/2001: 567 words, approx. 2 pages
HISTORICAL WAGNER:The Valkyrie (in English) Hunter, Curphey, Howard; Remedios, Bailey, Grant; English National Opera Orchestra, Goodall. English text. Chandos CHAN 3038 (4) (Koch, dist.) The Peter Moores Foundation, in addition to sponsoring recordings of opera in English for the Chandos label, is...
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Opera News
Farewell To The Valkyrie
04/01/2006: 1,218 words, approx. 4 pages
Other sopranos sang the heroic Wagner roles during the 1960s and '70s, but for most operagoers, certainly for Metropolitan Opera audiences, the voice of choice belonged to Birgit Nilsson. When Nilsson arrived at the Met to sing Isolde in December 1959, she was forty-one...
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Extras injured in accident during filming of Tom Cruise movie
8/20/2007: 362 words, approx. 1 pages
Several extras were injured falling from a truck during filming of a movie that has attracted controversy over the casting of prominent Scientologist Tom Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter.The accident happened on Sunday evening during filming of scenes from "Valkyrie" around the Finance...
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Several extras hurt in fall from truck during filming of Tom Cruise movie in Berlin
8/20/2007: 340 words, approx. 1 pages
Several extras were injured when they fell out of a truck during the filming of "Valkyrie," which stars Tom Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter.The accident happened Sunday evening while scenes were being shot around the Finance Ministry in Berlin, which was once the...
 


 

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