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valkyrie

valkyrie · valkyries

валькирія

валькирия

Walküre

Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the…Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

/ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/

Meaning

1 senses

(Norse)Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.
Wagner's “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (1853) famously features valkyries.
Walküre
вальки́рияvalʹkírija
валькиріяvalʹkyrija

More definitions

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

Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin:

Русский

By meaning 1

any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin:

Origin

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Pr

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ. Cognate to Old English wælcyrġe. First attested in English as a proper noun (Valkyries) in the 1770s; attested as a common noun (valkyries) since the 1880s.

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