Brynhild - a Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried; when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicidemythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person Norse mythology - the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity Valkyrie - (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla Teuton - a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans |