I don't believe she desired to be queen in that she was going to start a search for the most eligible bachelor. She wanted to be free to live the life of a shieldmaiden not a nurse trapped by existence...this freedom was represented by the title of "queen", one who has power and free will.
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But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.
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