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Wagner's Ash Trees

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Pavel Svinchnik

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Mar 24, 2017, 11:30:14 PM3/24/17
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I was watching a DVD of "Die Valkyrie" today and became aware of a coincidence that I'd not noticed before. Siegmund pulls Nothung out of an ash tree. In the next opera in the cycle, Siegfried reconstructs Nothung by melting its splintered metal in a forge fired by charcoal made from an ash tree.

I believe that Wotan's spear was made from a branch of the World Ash.

Paul

luc

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Mar 26, 2017, 2:12:05 PM3/26/17
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Mais oui. La cabane de Hunding est construite autour du frêne du monde
(Welt Esche) et la lance de Wotan, sur laquelle sont gravées les runes,
est issue de ce bois.
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