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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
In Renaissance art, they are often depicted as beautiful ... and even feasted on dead bodies. In Old Norse, Valkyrie means “chooser of the slain.” This is a literal description of one of ...
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Valkyrie: How the bloodthirsty Valkyries of Norse mythology became a pop culture phenomenon
This is a tale where human passions have a high cost; but in one passage in the Darraðarljóð, a skaldic poem in Old Norse ... Helgi falls in love with the Valkyrie Sigrún, and gathers a ...