Comic 535 - Treasures & Confessions
8th Jun 2020, 12:00 AM
in Dragon Slayers
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Author Notes:
Though she phrases it rather differently, Lena's attitude towards her newfound religion is rather similar the one the late Elliot Maerc once expressed.
(Man, Starry Wisdom should really screen better who is joining them!)
Hagen of Tronje and the Treasure of the Nibelungs (one of the items on Lena's "shopping list") are from the Medieval German Nibelungenlied ("Song of the Nibelungs").
And last but not least, my COVID-19 related logic here is that there are a lot of people at this place, ergo: Face masks on!
User comments:
Nibelungenlied? Wasn't that scribed from the edda?! Anyway, my favourite Nibeljungens are German Oak (No, they have no connection to any nazistuff in any way). The recording of their album "Nibellungenlied" is made around 1976, not 1972 (That was their first album), as sometimes said. One of the songs here.
And yes, I am aware that the Edda also tells a version of this story.
And then there is of course the adaption by Richard Wagner. (Who took bits from both sources, I think?)
In any case, this means that if anyone isn't familiar with what the heck we are talking about here - this very famous bit of music also has a connection to it!!
and let's be real, whatever the flavor it's usually a country club
Incidentally, exactly these last two panels were among the earliest parts of this chapter that cropped up in my head - namely shortly after you brought forward the notion of Lena joining Starry Wisdom, which caused me to wonder how she would present her new affiliation to other people.
Let the expert occultists worry about those unimportant minutiae...