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valkyrie's Usage Examples:

it twelve valkyries weave and choose who is to be slain at the Battle of Clontarf (fought outside Dublin in 1014).

Both valkyries appear in Heimskringla where they.

Sigurd slices her corslet with Gram, awakening the sleeping valkyrie.

The dísir, like the valkyries, norns, and vættir, almost always are referred to collectively in surviving references.

battle formed with a female name) that is only attested with names of valkyries.

In Valhalla, the einherjar eat their fill of the nightly-resurrecting beast Sæhrímnir, and valkyries bring them mead (which comes from the.

Now awful it is to be without, as blood-red rack races overhead; is the welkin gory with warriors" blood as we valkyries war-songs chanted.

valkyrie name Geirölul Geiravör "Spear-vör" Nafnaþulur Geirdriful "Spear-flinger" Nafnaþulur Geirönul, Geirrönul, Geirömul, Geirölul (various spellings).

used valkyrie-names as well as goddess-names in forming kennings referring to women, and it is possible that he thought of Ilmr as a valkyrie; one other.

Valkyrie, Gandul being one of the three most powerful valkyries.

Þrúðr is also the name of one of the valkyries who serve ale to the einherjar in Valhalla (Grímnismál, stanza 36).

him a [drinking] horn", then provides a list of 11 more valkyries who he says "bear ale to the einherjar"; Skeggjöld ("axe-age"), Skögul, Hildr, Þrúðr.

brought to Valhalla by valkyries.