being

Valkyrie

Beings

Battlefield chooser who bears slain to the hall. Not norn, and not angel.

Norse tradition

  • Valkyrie appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning places Valkyries as Odin’s choosers who bring the slain to Valhalla. Named Norse battlefield choosers in that prose Edda, not Norns and not angels.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.