Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45874
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  • Title: Valkyries: (a) Helgi and Sigrun I, (b) Helgi and Sigrun II, (c) Brynhild’s Helride
  • Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.  Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 166 - 172.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Brunhild (Literary Figure) Valkyries (Mythological Figures) Vikings Warfare and Warriors in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Scandinavia
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: (a) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, in Eddukœði, ed. Jónas Kristjansson and Vésteinn Ólason, Íslenzk fornrit (Reykjavík, 2014), vol. 2, pp. 257-58. (b) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, in Eddukœði, ed. Jónas Kristjansson and Vésteinn Ólason, Íslenzk fornrit (Reykjavík, 2014), vol. 2, pp. 280-83. (c) is trans. A.A. Somerville, from Helreið Brynhildar, in Eddukœði, ed. Jónas Kristjansson and Vésteinn Ólason, Íslenzk fornrit (Reykjavík, 2014), vol. 2, pp. 349-51.
  • Author's Affiliation: Brock University [McDonald and Somerville-Retired from the English Department]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487570477 (pbk); 9781487570491 (ePub); 9781487570507 (PDF)