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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jochens, Jenny

Titel

The Whetter: Brynhildr

Ist Teil von

• Old Norse Images of Women, 2016, p.162-173

Auflage

663.49

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Guđrún and Brynhildr, the two heroines in the Nibelung drama, each desired revenge for injustices committed against them. Guðrún used physical acts in her youth but resorted to verbal inciting in later years, whereas Brynhildr was from the beginning the whetter par excellence, a choice that perhaps reflects poets’ awareness of women’s bodily weakness as well as their mental strength. Unlike the avenger, whose incarnation was limited to Guðrún, the changing persona of the inciter expanded beyond the Continental setting of the Nibelung drama. Remember that before her coalescence with Brynhildr, Sigrdrífa had been poised in the tree Yggdrasill beneath