Nine Mothers of Heimdallr
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In Norse mythology, the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are nine sisters who gave birth to the god Heimdallr by the god Odin. The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13t
Heimdal and his Nine Mothers by W. G. Collingwood (1908), in which Heimdallr's nine mothers are depicted as sea waves
Heimdallr lifted by the Nine Wave Maidens by Karl Ehrenberg (1882), depicts Heimdallr's mothers as "wave maidens"
Rhinemaidens
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The Rhinemaidens are the three nixies sisters who appear in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Their individual names are Woglinde, Wellgunde and Flosshilde, although they are gener
Nine Mothers of Heimdallr
…Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán Rhinemaidens Nine sorceresses…
The three Rhinemaidens at play in the waters of the Rhine. Illustration from Stories of the Wagner Opera by H. A. Guerber, 1905.
Alberich steals the gold: Das Rheingold, Scene I – part of a series of Ring illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
The Rhinemaidens lament the loss of the gold as, far above, the gods cross the rainbow bridge into Valhalla. Das Rheingold, Scene IV (Arthur Rackham).
Alberich tries to reach the Rhinemaidens (Arthur Rackham)