valkyrie

See also: Valkyrie

English

Emil Doepler, Walkyrien (1905)

Alternative forms

• Valkyria, Valkyrie, Walkyrie

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ. Cognate to Old English wælcyrġe. 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^(key): /ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/, /ˈvælˌkɚ.i/, /ˈvɑl-/

• Audio (US):

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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” (1853) famously features valkyries.

Translations

any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin

• Afrikaans: walkure
• Albanian: valkyre f
• Arabic: فَالْكِيرِي f (fālkīrī)
• Bavarian: Walküre f
• Breton: valkirienn (br) f
• Catalan: valquíria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女武神 (zh) (nǚ wǔ shén),瓦尔基里 (zh) (wá ér jī lǐ)

• Chuvash: валькири (valʹkiri)
• Czech: valkýra f
• Danish: valkyrie c
• Dutch: walkure f
• Esperanto: valkirio
• Estonian: valküür
• Faroese: valkyrja f
• Finnish: valkyria
• French: valkyrie (fr) f
• Galician: valquiria f
• Georgian: ვალკირია (valḳiria)
• German: Walküre (de) f
• Greek: βαλκυρία f (valkyría)
• Hebrew: ולקיריה f
• Hungarian: valkűr (hu)
• Icelandic: valkyrja f
• Italian: valchiria (it) f, walkiria f, walchiria f
• Japanese: ワルキューレ (ja) (warukyūre), 戦乙女 (いくさおとめ, ikusaotome), 戦女神 (いくさめがみ, ikusamegami), ヴァルキュリヤ (varukyuriya), ヴァルキューレ (varukyūre), ヴァルキリー (varukirī), 戦乙女 (せのとめ, sen'otome), 女武神 (おんなぶしん, on'nabushin), 女武神 (じょぶしん, jobushin)
• Korean: 발키리 (balkiri),왈퀴리아 (walkwiria)
• Latvian: valkīras f
• Lithuanian: valkirijos f
• Macedonian: валки́рија f (valkírija), валки́ра m (valkíra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valkyrje m or f

  Nynorsk: valkyrje f

• Old Norse: valkyrja f
• Persian: والکیری (vâlkiri)
• Polish: walkiria (pl) f
• Portuguese: valquíria (pt) f
• Romanian: walkirie (ro) f
• Russian: вальки́рия (ru) f (valʹkírija)
• Serbo-Croatian: valkíre (sh) f

  Cyrillic: валки́ра f, валки́ре f

  Roman: valkíra f, valkíre (sh) f

• Slovak: valkýra f
• Slovene: valkira f
• Spanish: valquiria f, valkiria f
• Swedish: valkyria (sv) c
• Tagalog: balkirya
• Tamil: வால்கெய்ரி (vālkeyri)
• Thai: วาลคิรี
• Turkish: valkür
• Ukrainian: валькирія f (valʹkyrija)

See also

• shieldmaiden

Further reading

• valkyrie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse valkyrja, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /valkyːriə/, [valˈkʰyɐ̯ˀiə]

Noun

valkyrie c (singular definite valkyrien, plural indefinite valkyrier)

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

Inflection

Declension of valkyrie

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

Further reading

• valkyrie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /val.ki.ʁi/

• Audio:

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Noun

valkyrie f (plural valkyries)

1. valkyrie

Further reading

• “valkyrie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.