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= Solution

For a numéraire portfolio $\eta$, the normal random variable $\eta\cdot P_1$ is strictly positive almost surely. A nondegenerate normal variable has support on all of $\mathbb R$, so it must be degenerate: $\eta^TV\eta=0$, equivalently $V\eta=0$. Thus $\eta\cdot P_1=\eta\cdot\mu>0$ deterministically. The scaled portfolio
$$
B=\frac{\eta}{\eta\cdot\mu}
$$
has terminal value $B\cdot P_1=1$ almost surely and therefore replicates a risk-free bond.

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