- mythology, Gram (Old
Norse Gramr,
meaning "Wrath"), also
known as
Balmung or
Nothung, is the
sword that
Sigurd used to kill the
dragon Fafnir. It is primarily...
- finst’ren Wald").
Since Mime was
unable to
forge Nothung,
Siegfried decides to do it
himself ("
Nothung!
Nothung!
Neidliches Schwert!"). He
succeeds by shredding...
-
magic sword Nothung between them as a
witness to his
loyalty to
Gunther and his
keeping the
promise to
bring Brünnhilde
untouched ("Nun
Nothung,
zeuge du")...
- octaves, and
Siegfried in act I,
notably Siegfried's "Forging Song" (
Nothung!
Nothung!
Neidliches Schwert!)
William Walton: Belshazzar's
Feast John Williams:...
-
reveals herself as Sieglinde, his twin sister.
Siegmund names the
sword "
Nothung" and
declares that it will be her protection. The two sing of
their p****ionate...
- the Eddas. However, in this
version Mime is
unable to
reforge the
sword Nothung,
since only one who does not know fear—such as Siegfried—can do so.[citation...
- son
named Siegfried. In this story,
Wotan (Odin)
breaks Siegmund's
sword Nothung with his spear, and
Siegfried later reforges the
broken sword. The story...
- des Nibelungen,
Richard Wagner drew on the
legend of Gram for the
sword Nothung,
belonging to the hero
Siegmund and
later reforged by his son Siegfried...
- Walküre, it is
Sieglinde and not
Siegmund who
manages to pull the
sword Nothung out of a tree. At the end of the cycle, Brünnhilde does not die, but instead...
- the script. He was
faced with the
urgent necessity of
forging the real "
Nothung" so that he
could proceed to
slice the
cardboard anvil. He kept cool while...
