Santu De Silva wrote: >Well, pay attention, folks; in the story Siegfried had never seen a girl >before; he'd been brouhgt up exclusively by Mime, a male dwarf. As far as >he knew, he was the only representative of his race. ... And of course it doesn't reduce the confusion for poor Siegfried that Brunhilde, asleep on the flame-encircled rock, is clothed in a man's armor. Walter Meyer