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Val·kyr·ie    Audio Help   [val-keer-ee, -kahy-ree, vahl-, val-kuh-ree] Pronunciation Key
–noun Scandinavian Mythology.
any of the beautiful maidens attendant upon Odin who bring the souls of slain warriors chosen by Odin or Tyr to Valhalla and there wait upon them.
Also, Walkyrie.


[Origin: < ON valkyrja chooser of the slain (c. OE wælcyrie witch), equiv. to val(r) the slain in battle, slaughter (c. OE wæl) + kyrja chooser (c. OE cyrie); akin to choose]

Val·kyr·i·an, adjective
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Val·kyr·ie    Audio Help   (vāl-kîr'ē, -kī'rē, vāl'kə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Mythology
Any of Odin's handmaidens who conducted the souls of the slain to Valhalla.


[Old Norse Valkyrja; see welə- in Indo-European roots.]

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Valkyrie 
1768, one of 12 war-maidens who escorted the brave dead to Valhalla, from O.N. valkyrja, lit. "chooser of the slain," from valr "those slain in battle" (see Valhalla) + kyrja "chooser," from ablaut root of kjosa "to choose," from P.Gmc. *keusan, from PIE *geus- "to taste, choose" (see gusto). O.E. form was Wælcyrie, but they seem not to have figured as largely in Anglo-Saxon tales as in Scandinavian. Ger. Walküre (Wagner) is from O.N.

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valkyrie

noun
(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla 

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