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Valkyrie

noun

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

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"Valkyrie" Quotes from Famous Books

... ministry of Mrs. Petulengro's hand. Nature never intended Belle to appear as a gypsy; she had made her too proud and serious. A more proper part for her was that of a heroine, a queenly heroine,—that of Theresa of Hungary, for example; or, better still, that of Brynhilda the Valkyrie, the beloved of Sigurd, the serpent-killer, who incurred the curse of Odin, because, in the tumult of spears, she sided with the young king, and doomed the old warrior to die, to whom ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... in Germany as a house of dreams, seen the Valkyrie race by, heard the swan song, wept with Werther and with Marguerite, smiled cynically with Mephistopheles, languished with the Palm Tree and the Pine of Heine; who has not sat at the feet of Germany as a philosopher, and traced the very fissures of his own brain in following ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... and I aren't millionaires like you; so we'll just form a corporation and call it the S. S. Valkyrie Company and sell stock in our venture. I have you down right now for a ten-thousand-dollar subscription at the very least, though you can have ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... to throw herself on her knees. She remembered how she had thrown herself on her knees on the morning of the afternoon she had gone away. And since then she had thrown herself at his feet many times—every time she sang in the "Valkyrie." The scene in which Wotan confides all his troubles and forebodings to Brunnhilde had never been different from the long talks she and her father used to drop into in the dim evenings in Dulwich. She had cheered him when he came home ...

— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

Words linked to "Valkyrie" : Brunnhilde, Norse mythology, Brunhild, mythical being, Brynhild