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Valkyrie

noun

(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla.

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... they spent each day in warfare, and where at evening the dead were revived, the wounded healed, and all feasted together in Odin's palace. There they fed upon the flesh of the boar Saehrimner, which was renewed as fast as it was eaten. Certain maidens called Valkyrie, or Choosers of the Slain, were Odin's messengers whom he sent forth into the battles of the world to find the warriors whom he had appointed to die, and to bring ...

— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung • William Morris

... which the poet hung his imagery, but having no more relation to real life as it is lived by human beings than the blood-lust of the half-man, half-bull Minotaur, or the uncomfortable riding conversation of the Valkyrie. ...

— The Rough Road • William John Locke

Words linked to "Valkyrie" : mythical being, Brunnhilde, Norse mythology, Brunhild, Brynhild