Northern Exposure: Arnold Whittall broadly welcomes a symposium exploring Wagner’s Nordic connections

Projecting the Rope of Fate in a northerly direction seems to confirm the special significance of what The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia, in an admirably succinct contribution from Kaaren Grimstad, identifies as ‘Nordic mythology’, and also helps to explain the thorough and expert coverage ‘the North’ has received in writing about the Ring from Deryck Cooke, Elizabeth Magee, Nicholas Vazsonyi and Thomas Grey (among others).