Nothung (1)

Nothung (Ger.)
Siegmund's broken sword that his son, Siegurd, reforges when Mime fails in Die Walküre / Die Valküre (The Valkyrie), the second opera in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. In the Icelandic sources, Volsung's Saga and the Eddas, the sword is called Gram and it is reforged by Regin for Sifried.

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