'Brunnhilde on Grane leaps on to the funeral pyre of Siegfried', 1924. Artist: Arthur Rackham

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'Brunnhilde on Grane leaps on to the funeral pyre of Siegfried', 1924. Illustration from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. Brunnhilde gets on her horse, Grane, and still in love with Siegfried, who she realises has also been betrayed, jumps into his funeral pyre with the ring on. From Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods). From a private collection.

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