Brynhild

[brin-hild]

noun

Scandinavian Legend.

1. a Valkyrie and the wife of Gunnar, for whom she was won by Sigurd: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied.

Brynhild

/ ˈbrɪnhɪld /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

I have not gone to it, however, for my story, but to the Elder Edda, where the love and death of Sigurd and Brynhild and Gudrun are the subject of a number of the poems.

From Literature

Friday in the Brynhild Haugland Room at the state Capitol in Bismarck.

From Seattle Times

Young sees the serpent as natural to his neighborhood, which also includes the Norse references Walhalla, Gudrun and Brynhild roads, but he was actually inspired by a landscape about 100 miles away.

From Washington Times

She is called Brynhild and was a Valkyrie.

From Project Gutenberg

The greatest of them all, the story of Sigurd and Brynhild, has come down from an older world.

From Project Gutenberg