Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald implemented this epic, but it was also influenced by many collectors and adaptors and was published in both German and Estonian. The myths of Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, presented in the Learned Estonian Society between 1840 and 1852, have had the biggest influence on...
The Marine.com site adds this: "The tradition was believed to have its roots during World War I when German soldiers referred to the Marines as "devil dogs," comparing their fierce fighting ability to that of wild mountain dogs of Bavarian folklore." No one questions the valor of the ...
From 1853 until 1874 Wagner worked intermittently on the four poems and the four scores ofDer Ring des Nibelungen(“The Ring of the Nibelung”). It is an epic, based on Germanicmyths, of such proportions andimplicationsthat it defies summarization. Musically, Wagner organizes all four operas ar...