brynhild

Noun
  1. A Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried;
    When he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide (synset 109613669)
    referred to in:
    • mythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person
    • norse mythology - the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity
    • teuton - a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans
    is an instance of: valkyrie - (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla
    same as: brunhild, brunnhilde

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