Description:
Valkyrie imagery, popular imagery of valkyries, shieldmaiden.
The famous costumes and promotional illustrations of Wagner's Ring Cycle opera created arguably the strongest modern iconography/visual depiction of Norse/Germanic heroic and mythic stories; enshrined Vss., the heroic eddic poetry concerning Sigurðr, and the Nibelungenlied as the quintessential stories of the Germanic heroic age, along with Tolkien's favor for the same story. Cf. Pixis, Walkürenritt (1870-1) and Wotans Abschied von Brünhilde; Carl Emil Doepler, costume designer for the Ring operas, his illustrations; Peter Nicolai Arbo's Valkyrjen (1869); Hans Makart's The Valkyrie (1877) and Valkyrie and a Dying Hero (date uncertain).
Context:
An Empyrean, strongest of the demigods, twin of Miquella, child of Radagon and Marika, and Goddess of Rot; source of the Scarlet Rot and the Swamp of Aeonia.
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