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a Norse battlefield headhunter who decides which dead warriors are worth keeping.
means In Norse mythology, one of the warrior-maidens who choose which slain fighters die in battle and carry the worthy to Odin's hall, Valhalla.
from From Old Norse 'valkyrja,' a compact and grim compound: 'valr' (the slain, the dead on a battlefield) plus 'kjósa' (to choose) — literally 'chooser of the slain.' That first element 'valr' is the same word lurking in 'Valhalla,' the 'hall of the slain,' so the valkyries and their destination share a bleak root. The word came into modern English largely through 19th-century interest in Norse myth and the operatic thunder of Wagner's 'Die Walküre,' the German cousin of the same name.
- name meaning
- Old Norse for chooser of the slain
- day job
- ferry elite dead to Odin's hall, Valhalla
- second gig
- serve mead to the warriors they collected
- modern echo
- named a doomed flying-wing supersonic bomber
- Wagner remix
- their ride scored countless dramatic film scenes
valkyrie space launch system — reusable spaceplane concept by xcor aerospace, designed for suborbital space tourism
operation valkyrie — failed assassination plot against hitler on july 20, 1944, led by claus von stauffenberg
valkyrie marvel character — jane foster's alter ego in thor comics and mcu films, introduced 2017