@ceege wrote:
@TheTrickster wrote:
@Gaultheria wrote:
But as I said, I don’t think so. It was more like the hero getting an amulet from the old wizard. You know, as Sigrud got the magic ring from the evil dwarf wizard before go to kill Fafnir and rescue the “sleeping beauty” that was Brinhild from her punishment -that was sleeping into a circle of flames until a hero could arrive til her.
Sorry for my ignorance, but what story does that refer to?
Sigurd is a character from old Norse mythology. Sigurd was the basis for the character Siegfried in Richard Wagner’s opera, Siegfried, which is part of the four opera cycle Der Ring des Nibulungen. I think TheTrickster is right that there are a lot of great parallels between that classic story and OUAT.
(By the way, I never apologize for my ignorance – I just remember Mark Twain’s comment: “Everyone is ignorant; just on different subjects.”)