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Valkyrie
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Valkyrie
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n
(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla
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Brunnhilde
a Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried; when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide
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mythical being
an imaginary being of myth or fable
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