Image:Ring21.jpg

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Taking his sister Sieglinde as his wife, Siegmund holds up his newfound sword Nothung.

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Illustration by Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) to Richard Wagner's Die Walküre.

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The immediate source of this image as uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons is:

http://www.artpassions.net/cgi-bin/rackham.pl?../galleries/rackham/ring//home/haukur/rackham/ring21.jpg

Originally the image was published in the following book:

• Wagner, Richard (translated by Margaret Amour) (1910). The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. London:William Heinemann, New York: Doubleday, Page.

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