BRUNHILD

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• BRUNHILD (noun)
  The noun BRUNHILD has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BRUNHILD used as a noun is very rare.

• BRUNHILD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Brunhild; Brunnhilde; Brynhild

Instance hypernyms:

Valkyrie ((Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla)

Domain category:

mythology (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)

Teuton (a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans)

 Context examples 

Then their talk turned to minstrelsy, and the stranger knight drew forth a cittern, upon which he played the minne-lieder of the north, singing the while in a high cracked voice of Hildebrand and Brunhild and Siegfried, and all the strength and beauty of the land of Almain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)