Walkyrie
Americannoun
noun
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Wotan sends Brünnhilde, his favorite Walkyrie, to turn the fight for Hunding.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I will serve at the banquet," says the Walkyrie, "but only him who, in the trial of deadly combat, has shown himself a hero."
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
Then the god mounts his steed, and rides off on the wings of the storm in pursuit of the disobedient Walkyrie, whom he is obliged to punish severely for his oath's sake.
From Stories of the Wagner Opera by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
Flowers only can understand flower-speech, the stars the language of the spheres, one pillar of Memnon answers another, the dead comprehend the Walkyrie, sleep-walkers the speech of the moon—lovers only the language of love.
From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai
Vogl played Loge, in the "Rheingold," and Siegmund, in "Walkyrie," when they were produced in 1869 and 1870, and his greatest triumphs have been gained in Wagner's operas.
From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee
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