Valkyries (shield-maidens). Demigoddesses who attend battle

Motif

Valkyries (shield-maidens). Demigoddesses who attend battle.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · Gods of the earth. · Gods of abstractions. · view the constellation · filed as A485.2

Filed across the traditions

Norse De 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

Within the index

Filed under God of war.

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