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Alternative Title
Granë
Description
A small silver-cream ceramic horse figurine that stands boldly, looking slightly to the left with a windblown mane and tail. The horse has a headstall but no reins or saddle. [Description from photograph.]
24. Granë. The horse of Brünhilde, in Wagner’s operas, Die Walkurë and Götterdämmerung, in the latter of which both she and Granë plunge into the flames of Siegfried’s funeral pyre.
Exhibit label:
GRANE, THE HORSE OF BRUNNHILDE.
A gift from Margaret Waller Freeman, an Editor of The Reviewer.
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Cabell, Margaret Freeman, 1893-1983
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Mythology, Germanic; Valkyries (Norse mythology); Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen.
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
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Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 24, Granë, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i024.jpg