Their name, valkyrie, or valkyrja in Old Norse, means chooser of a dead man on the battlefield. It’s also the name of the ...

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Jackson Crawford, a scholar of Norse mythology, said valkyries are a rare example of powerful female characters in male-dominated medieval culture and mythology. “They’re not on the sidelines.