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An anderer Stelle (ebd. S. 316) heißt es zu den Walküren: „In Odins Mädchen vereinigen sich mehrere Gestalten, die gesondert auch sonst vorkommen: ....seelische Geister, Fylgien, die dem Todgeweihten sichtbar werden, irdische Weiber, welche beim prächtigen Gelage in des Königs Halle den Trunk herumreichen, Frauen, die ... die Waffen der Männer anlegten ...“
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Later (p. 316) Golther explains that ‘‘Odin’s girls’’ combine several different beings within themselves, which elsewhere appear in a particular shape…. They appear as ‘weird sisters’, influencing individual or collective fate, as spirits of the tempest, as Woden’s consort Freyja, as souls, as fylgjur. They show themselves to those doomed to die, as earthly women, who in the king’s mead hall pass the drinking horns round, as women, who arm themselves with the weapons of the men...
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