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