They were actually Idun’s apples, not Frejya’s. Wagner has conflated the mythology and twisted it around.

Now, you may be aware that JMG is working through a series of blog posts on Wagner’s Ring Cycle. He starts out by stating, “Some years ago, back when I was blogging on The Archdruid Report, I mentioned in passing that if I ever got tired of having a large readership, I would do a series of posts on Richard Wagner’s opera cycle The Nibelung’s Ring.”

HERE WE GOT THE DRUIDS COMING IN FOR ALE.

He attended the Ring in Seattle in 1977, at the age of, what fourteen?! I have encountered the lower middle class at the opera, myself included, in cheap polyester and binoculars, sitting there rapt after all those piano lessons. It is a culture that is slipping away from us, but it was there in my youth.

JMG is a titan of MIND. If you want to be able to construct three-clause sentences in a magical state, it is not a bad idea to read this author.

At the same time, I have seen the Ring Cycle at Seattle Opera as well as quite a few other Wagner operas. It is what put Seattle Opera on the map when everyone else was eschewing Wagner on account of the Holocaust, and rightly so, for a sense of the heart, but not so much, if everything else is going on everywhere. Some of us can make fine distinctions, like, Not Everyone Liked Hitler any more than everyone likes Trump. I, for one, didn’t vote for Trump, yet I may have to bear the consequences of his racist policies.

So all aboard. It is going to be a great ride. That Low Rumbling from Home

The Nibelung’s Ring: Prelude