Crossword-Solution: BRYNHILDE 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

But it is evident that his physical admiration was reserved for a tall blonde of the Scandinavian type, to which he gave the name of a Brynhilde.

Sigurd, Brynhilde, Gudrun, and Atle, are mythical characters celebrated as well by the Scandinavian Scalds as by the German epic poets, but with many varieties and separate additions to distinguish the one from the other.

The subject is told us in some way or other--we see Don Juan thrusting at the Commandant, or the spear flying at Parsifal's head, or the fire licking the couch of Brynhilde; or else there is, in the words of the song or opera, some suggestion of the external thing that is being illustrated in the music.

Having made all this clear in an introductory scene, Wagner raises the curtain upon Siegfried and Brynhilde.

Not content with all this, Wagner afterwards stages, in a third opera, the _Valkyrie_, the whole of the action that has been told and told again in _Siegfried_ and the _Götterdämmerung_, from the love of Siegmund and Sieglinde down to the punishment of Brynhilde.