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When the bravest man was wounded, she would quickly swoop down, and, snatching him up, would fly with him to Valhalla, where he was revived by fair Freya. Sometimes, when evening came, every one of the war-maidens rode into Valhalla carrying a noble hero. This was Wotan's plan for protecting the palace. After a while he would have at the castle a company of the bravest heroes of the earth.
Siegmund saw it, and, springing forward, he grasped its hilt. Then, bracing himself against the tree, with one mighty pull, behold! he drew the bright blade from its sheath. Wotan gathered to Valhalla a company of nine war-maidens. They were called the Walkuere. They were strong, beautiful young women, who rode through the clouds upon swift horses.
Wotan pleads the general necessity of encouraging heroism in order to keep up the Valhalla bodyguard; but his remonstrances only bring upon him torrents of reproaches for his own unfaithfulness to the law in roaming through the world and begetting war-maidens, "wolf cubs," and the like. He is hopelessly beaten in the argument.
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