Valkyries (shield-maidens). Demigoddesses who attend battle.
Mythological motifs. · Gods. · Gods of the earth. · Gods of abstractions. · view the constellation · filed as A485.2
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- NorseDe la Saussaye 304ff., MacCulloch Eddic 248ff., 259, 283–84, 314, Penzer X 345 s. v. "Valkyries".
- general *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 240ff
- general **Golther "Der Valkyrenmythus" Abhandl. d. Akad. d. Wiss. (München), 1. Kl., XVIII, Abt. 2, 401ff.
- general *Krappe Modern Language Review XXI 55 ff.
- general *Hertz Aus Dichtung und Sage 31ff. – Irish myth: Cross