Brynhild
a Valkyrie and the wife of Gunnar, for whom she was won by Sigurd: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied.
Historical Examples
Epic and Romance W. P. Ker
The Children of Odin Padraic Colum
The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories L. Adams Beck
The Children of Odin Padraic Colum
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris
The Children of Odin Padraic Colum
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
The Children of Odin Padraic Colum
The Perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw
The Children of Odin Padraic Colum
noun
(Norse myth) a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
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