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.

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

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

Brynhildr is chiefly concerned with honor, much like a male warrior.

Brynhildr is upset not only for the loss of Sigurd but also for the dishonesty involved.

Gudrun is no shieldmaiden, and Brynhildr mocks her for this, saying, " Only ask what is best for you to know.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Aslaug was the daughter of Sigurd and the shieldmaiden Brynhildr, but was raised by Brynhild's fosterfather Heimer.

Sigurðarkviða hin skamma contains several stanzas in which the Valkyrie Brynhildr gives instructions for the number of slaves that were to be sacrificed for the funeral of the hero Sigurd, and how their bodies were to be arranged on the pyre, as in the following stanza:

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.

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

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.

Brynhildr of the Volsunga saga, along with her rival in love, Gudrun, provides an example of how a shieldmaiden compares to more conventional aristocratic womanhood in the sagas.

" 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.

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.

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

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.

Brynhildr responds to her accusations:

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.

A depiction of Brynhildr ( 1919 ) by Robert Engels.

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

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

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

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

Brynhildr herself killed Sigurðr's three-year-old son, and then she willed herself to die.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

She's been in and out of my house for a dozen years now, although she's still a teen-ager who looks like a baby, she is getting married.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.

Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.

Pope Pius 12, declared in 1951 that it is possible to be exempt from the normal obligation of parenthood for a long time and even for the whole duration of married life, if there are serious reasons, such as those often mentioned in the so-called medical, eugenic, economic and social `` indications ''.

the other is the paramount importance in married life of deliberate and thoughtful self-control ''.

It is interesting that, although the percentage of married students is not appreciably higher at Brooklyn than elsewhere -- about 30 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class -- the anxiety of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate.

`` Almost everybody in the senior class is married '', students say dogmatically.

He is married to the former Audrey Knecht and has a daughter, Karol, 13.

He is married and the father of three children.

It is the equivalent of 8 per cent for an unmarried investor with more than $16,000 of income to be taxed, or for a married couple with more than $32,000 of taxed income.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

And, if a man is married, he will automatically be given a divorce ''.

According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.

Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.

In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.