(urth) Wizard Questions

[Jeff Wilson]

Batrinque at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/7/2007 7:59:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> danldo at gmail.com writes:
> 
>     Sounds like a kind of inversion of the Tarnhelm.
> 
> Hmm, I hadn't considered it might be a reversal of some mythological 
> element, but that's an interesting thought, especially considering that 
> the tarnhelm allowed the wearer to become a dragon ...

That may be a Wagnerism rather than authentic Teutonic myth; some have 
it that the tarnhelm confers invisibility while the Rheingold transforms 
the outer form to match the inner nature.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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