Sigurd ( Siegfried ) later killed Fafnir and gave Andvaranaut to Brynhildr ( Brünnehilde ).

Following Sigurðr's departure, Brynhildr was visited by Gudrun, the daughter of Gjuki, who sought her aid in interpreting a dream.

This dream presaged Sigurðr's betryal of Brynhildr and marriage to Gudrun.

Hearing of Sigurðr's encounter with the valkyrie, Grimhild decided to make Brynhildr the wife of her son Gunnar ( Gunther in the Nibelungenlied ).

This son, named Aldrian, accomplished Atli's death and became Jarl of Niflungaland under Brynhild ( Brynhildr ).

Promising to return and make Brynhildr his bride, Sigurðr then headed for the court of Gjuki, the King of Burgundy.

She tells him her name is Hildr, and " she is known as Brynhildr, and was a valkyrie ".

Brynhildr ( sometimes spelled Brunhild, Brünnhilde, Brynhild ) is a shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Norse mythology, where she appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the same events.

However, Brynhildr has sworn to marry only Sigurðr, so she is deceived into believing that Gunnar is actually Sigurðr.

In the Italian comic book Martin Mystère, Aslaug, the daughter of the Valkyrie Brynhildr, with the help of Karl Weisthor, attempted to open a portal to Hindarfjall in the Obergruppenführersaal in Wewelsburg in 1936, but she was stopped by the agent of the American secret service " Elsewhere ", who was unknowingly working for Loki, the god of fire.

When she ends up married to Gudrun's brother Gunnar instead of Sigurd, the man she intended to marry, Brynhildr speaks a verse comparing the courage of the two men:

The poems in the second part narrate legends about Norse heroes and heroines, such as Sigurd, Brynhildr and Gunnar.

They rejected many tales they collected because of their similarity to tales by Charles Perrault, which they thought proved they were not truly German tales ; Sleeping Beauty survived in their collection because the tale of Brynhildr convinced them that the figure of the sleeping princess was authentically German.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

" While riding along a road on the border of Hel in a lavish cart ( the cart her corpse was burnt within ), Brynhildr encounters a dead giantess at a burial mound belonging to her.

This results in a heated exchange, during which Brynhildr tells of her life.

As far as historicity can be ascertained, Attila, Jörmunrekkr and Brynhildr actually existed, taking Brynhildr to be partly based on Brunhilda of Austrasia, but the chronology has been reversed in the poems.

The history of Brynhildr includes fratricide, a long battle between brothers, and dealings with the Huns.

A depiction of Brynhildr ( 1919 ) by Robert Engels.

According to the Völsunga saga, Brynhildr is a shieldmaiden ( and seemingly though not explicitly a valkyrie ) who is the daughter of Budli.

The hero Sigurðr Sigmundson ( Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied ), heir to the clan of Völsung and slayer of the dragon Fafnir, entered the castle and awoke Brynhildr by removing her helmet and cutting off her chainmail armour.

The Völsunga saga also describes a subsequent encounter between Sigurðr and Brynhildr at Hlymdale, the home of Brynhildr's brother-in-law, Heimir.

In the kingdom of the Burgundians, Gjuki's wife, the sorceress Grimhild, wanting Sigurðr married to her daughter Gudrun ( Kriemhild in Nibelungenlied ), prepared a magic potion that made Sigurðr forget about Brynhildr.

Gunnar and Sigurðr soon returned to their true forms, and Brynhildr married Gunnar.

However, Gudrun and Brynhild later quarreled over whose husband was greater, Brynhildr boasting that Gunnar had been brave enough to ride through the flames.

Gudrun revealed that it was actually Sigurðr who rode through the ring of fire, and Brynhildr became enraged.

Brynhildr plotted revenge by urging Gunnar to kill Sigurðr, telling him that he slept with her on Hidarfjall, which he swore not to do.

According to the Völsunga saga, Brynhildr bore Sigurðr a daughter, Aslaug, who later married Ragnar Lodbrok.

In the Eddic poem Helreið Brynhildar ( Bryndhildr's ride to Hel ), Brynhildr on her journey to Hel encounters a gýgr ( giantess ) who blames her for an immoral livelihood.

In the episode " Drones ", Beavis mentions something taking place " after Daria killed herself " and Butt-head incredulously tells him that Daria did not die but merely moved to a different city.

Boudica then either killed herself, so she would not be captured, or fell ill and died — the extant sources, Tacitus and Cassius Dio, differ.

Anne Reid quit as Valerie Barlow, and was killed off in 1971, electrocuting herself with a faulty hairdryer.

As they flee on foot, Brain is killed by a mine and Maggie refuses to leave him, allowing herself to be run over by the Duke's car.

Phoebe lived in uptown New York until the age of 12 when her mother killed herself and she took to the streets.

's mother may have killed herself to escape his father.

Cyzicus ' wife killed herself.

A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylus in Asia Minor and either turned to stone as she wept or killed herself.

Before Macbeth ’ s opponents arrive, he receives news that Lady Macbeth has killed herself, causing him to sink into a deep and pessimistic despair and deliver his " Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow " soliloquy ( 5. 5. 17 – 28 ).

258 K ) suggested that Sappho killed herself by jumping off the Leucadian cliffs for love of Phaon, a ferryman.

The Speaker explains how Novinha blames herself for Pipo's death, and underwent a life of suffering and deception — marrying Marcão so that to prevent Libo from accessing the information which killed Pipo, but secretly trysting with Libo — because their love for each other never truly died.

He decides to reconcile with Sibyl, but Lord Henry later informs him that she has killed herself by swallowing prussic acid.

Despite Gabrielle's hopes that she would " be good ", Hope killed Xena's son Solan before being poisoned by Gabrielle herself.

Madelyne suffered a mental breakdown upon discovering she was a clone and killed herself.

* 30 March: Two people killed when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem.

In 2007, a Chinese student at the University of Nottingham killed herself after she discovered that she had fallen for a similar lottery scam.

A recent study translates his words as follows :" And a very great betrayal of a lord it is also in the world, that a man betray his lord to death, or drive him living from the land, and both have come to pass in this land: Edward was betrayed, and then killed, and after that burned ..." Later sources, further removed from events, such as the late 11th century Passio S. Eadwardi and John of Worcester, claim that Ælfthryth organised the killing of Edward, while Henry of Huntingdon wrote that she killed Edward herself.

Septimus returns to find Lady Croom searching for him, after finding two letters that Septimus had written in case he was killed by Chater, one a love letter addressed to herself and the other, written to Thomasina, regarding rice pudding.

Inspector Goole arrives and explains that a woman called Eva Smith killed herself by drinking strong disinfectant.

* November 26, 1985: Spanaway, Washington A 14 year old girl shot two boys fatally, then killed herself with a. 22-caliber rifle at Spanaway Junior High School.

* May 20, 1988: Winnetka, Illinois 30 year old Laurie Dann shot and killed one elementary school student and wounded five others, then took a family hostage and shot a man before killing herself.

The ancient sources, particularly the Roman ones, are in general agreement that Cleopatra killed herself by inducing an Egyptian cobra to bite her.

But eventually Ariadne, unable to bear her separation from Theseus, either killed herself ( according to the Athenians ), or ascended to heaven ( as the older versions had it ).

Rheya, who killed herself with a lethal injection after quarreling with Kelvin, returns as his visitor.