valkyrie

See also Valkyrie

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Valkyrie
• Walkyrie

Etymology

From Old Norse valkyrja (“chooser of the slain”, singular), plural valkyrjur (plural), either from Germanic roots equivalent to, or formed in Norse from, the elements valr (“the slain”) + kjósa (“to choose”). Cognate to Old English wælcyrge. First attested in English as a proper noun (Valkyries) in the 1770s; attested as a common noun (valkyries) since the 1880s.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/, X-SAMPA: /"v{l%kI.ri/

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Noun

valkyrie (plural valkyries)

1. (Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

   Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (published 1853) famously features valkyries.

Translations

any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin

• Afrikaans: walkure
• Albanian: valkire
• Arabic: فالكيري
• Bavarian: Walküre f
• Breton: valkirienn
• Catalan: valquíria
• Chuvash: Валькири (val'kiri)
• Czech: valkýra (cs) f
• Danish: valkyrie (da)
• Dutch: walkure
• Esperanto: valkirio
• Estonian: valküürid
• Faroese: valkyrja (fo) f
• Finnish: valkyria (fi)
• French: valkyrie (fr) f
• Galician: valquiria
• German: Walküre (de) f
• Greek: Βαλκυρία (el) (Valkyria) f 
• Hebrew: ולקיריה
• Hungarian: valkűr (hu)
• Icelandic: valkyrja (is) f
• Indonesian: Valkyrie
• Italian: valchiria (it) f
• Japanese: ヴァルキリー (wārukirī), 戦乙女 (いくさおとめ ikusaotome), 戦女神 (いくさめがみ ikusamegami)

• Korean: 발키리아 (balkiria)
• Latvian: valkīras
• Lithuanian: valkirijos
• Malaysian: Valkyrie
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valkyrier (no)

  Nynorsk: valkyrie (no)

• Persian: والکیری
• Polish: walkiria f
• Portuguese: valquíria (pt) f
• Romanian: walkirie (ro)
• Russian: валькирия (ru) (val'kírija) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: валкира (sh) f, валкире (sh) f

  Roman: valkira (sh) f, valkire (sh) f

• Slovak: valkýra
• Slovene: valkira
• Spanish: valquiria f
• Swedish: valkyria (sv) c
• Tagalog: balkirya (tl)
• Tamil: வால்கெய்ரி
• Thai: วาลคิรี
• Turkish: valkür
• Ukrainian: валькирія (uk) (val'kyrija) f 

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse valkyrja.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /valkyːriə/, [valˈkʰyɐ̯ˀiə]

Noun

valkyrie c (singular definite valkyrien, plural indefinite valkyrier)

1. valkyrie
2. fury, virago (a large, strong, courageous or aggressive woman)

Inflection

    Inflection of valkyrie

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	valkyrie	valkyrien	valkyrier	valkyrierne
genitive	valkyries	valkyriens	valkyriers	valkyriernes

External links

• Valkyrie on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia