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Valkyrie. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Valkyrie Forms: α. 8–9 valkyria (pl. -iur, 9 -iæ). β. 8–9 valkerie (9 -kery), 9– valkyrie. [a. ON. valkyrja (pl. -kyrjur), f. val-r those slain in battle + -kyrja chooser, f. kur- (:—kuz-), ablaut stem of kjósa to choose. Cf. OE. wælcyrie (-ʓe, -iʓe), -kyrie WALKYRIE.] In Scandinavian mythology, one or other of the twelve war-maidens supposed to hover over battlefields and to conduct the fallen warriors to Valhalla.

1   α.  1768.  Gray, Fatal Sisters, Note. The Valkyriur were female Divinities, Servants of Odin (or Woden) in the Gothic mythology.

2 1778.  Mrs. Grant of Laggan, Lett. Mount. (1807), II. ix. 55. The prophetic Valkyria may once more say [etc.].

3 1806.  W. Herbert, Sel. Icel. Poetry, I. 119. Two of the Valkyriæ or virgins of slaughter.

4 a. 1835.  Mrs. Hemans, Sword of the Tomb, Poems (1875), 339. The far-renown’d Whom the bright Valkyriur’s warning voice Had call’d to the banquet where gods rejoice.

5   β.  1770.  Percy, trans. Mallet’s Northern Antiq., I. 102. There are other virgins in Valhall;… they are called Valkeries. Ibid., II. 99. These Goddesses are called Valkyries.

6 1784.  Jerningham, Rise Scand. Poetry, Advt. p. iii. The Valkeries are a female troop whom Odin sends to the field of battle upon invisible steeds.

7 1801.  M. G. Lewis, Tales of Wonder, Sword of Angantyr, xxxiii. ’Tis the Valkyries who sing, While they spin thy vital thread.

8 a. 1843.  Southey, Death of Odin. No virgin goddess him shall call;… No Valkery for him prepare The smiling mead.

9 1881.  Du Chaillu, Land of Midnight Sun, II. 420–1. Beautiful maidens! are you the Scandinavian valkyries who travel through the air, or their spirits flying before me?

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