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	In {{wp\|Wagner\|Wagner's}} epic [[Opera\|The Nibelungs Ring]] the voices for the nine valkyries are scored as four sopranos, four mezzo-sopranos and one contra-alto (plus a fifth soprano for Sieglinde, stretching any opera ensemble to its limits).		In {{wp\|Wagner\|Wagner's}} epic [[Opera\|The Nibelungs Ring]] the voices for the nine valkyries are scored as four sopranos, four mezzo-sopranos and one contra-alto (plus a fifth soprano for Sieglinde, stretching any opera ensemble to its limits).

			Norse saga does emphasise that Valkyries can have something approaching a "normal" off-duty life which can include marriage and motherhood (reference [[War]]'s marriage to a Valkyrie). Helgi Hundingsbana was a Valkyrie who took such a shine to one of her post-mortem passengers that she married him. The fact her spouse was technically dead did not prevent resultant children from making an appearance.

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	In {{wp\|Wagner\|Wagner's}} epic [[Opera\|The Nibelungs Ring]] the voices for the nine valkyries is scored as four sopranos, four mezzo-sopranos and one contra-alto (plus a fifth soprano for Sieglinde, stretching any opera ensemble to its limits).		In {{wp\|Wagner\|Wagner's}} epic [[Opera\|The Nibelungs Ring]] the voices for the nine valkyries are scored as four sopranos, four mezzo-sopranos and one contra-alto (plus a fifth soprano for Sieglinde, stretching any opera ensemble to its limits).




	For more on why there have to be nine Valkyries and how that ''Hi-To-Yo!'' business fits into it, go here, where (second) Greatest Living Englishman Stephen Fry drops in on rehearsals for ''Die Valkure''....[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDIaH3RtYHw&playnext=1&list=PL93122969F6ED17B0&index=1] and meets some thoroughly modern Valkyries who don't do the matching saucepan lid bit, but rather favour some natty scarlet armour.
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Supernatural maidens (not necessarily young) dressed in [[barbarian heroes|barbarian warrior]] fashion, riding huge horses to take the souls of dead warriors to [[Valhalla|the big carousing hall in the sky]]. Valkyries are often mezzo-sopranos. One Valkyrie hit the big time (the analogy is the nurse who ends up married to a consultant) when she became Mrs [[War]], and in good time the mother of [[Panic]], [[Terror]] and [[Clancy]]. It is unclear as to whether or not Mrs [[War]] is still an active Valkyrie, although the presumption is that she helps out at busy times.

Another Valkyrie confronts a very young and nervous [[Susan Sto Helit]] when she has to take over from [[Death]] due to one of his fancies. On the battlefields of the Hublandish Vasung and Bergund tribes lay a lot of the slain, but the soul of one [[Volf Volfssonssonssonsson]] was left tied to his body until Susan worked out where he was and let the Valkyrie cart him off to the fabled Halls of the Slain.

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In {{wp|Wagner|Wagner's}} epic [[Opera|The Nibelungs Ring]] the voices for the nine valkyries is scored as four sopranos, four mezzo-sopranos and one contra-alto (plus a fifth soprano for Sieglinde, stretching any opera ensemble to its limits).

For more on why there have to be nine Valkyries and how that ''Hi-To-Yo!'' business fits into it, go here, where (second) Greatest Living Englishman Stephen Fry drops in on rehearsals for ''Die Valkure''....[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDIaH3RtYHw&playnext=1&list=PL93122969F6ED17B0&index=1] and meets some thoroughly modern Valkyries who don't do the matching saucepan lid bit, but rather favour some natty scarlet armour.
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