See also:

• BRUNHILD (M.H.Ger. Briinhilt or Priinhilt, Nor. Brynhild?)

BRUNHILD (M.H.Ger. Briinhilt or Priinhilt, Nor. Brynhild?)  , the name of a mythical heroine of various versions of the See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend of the Nibelungs . The name means " the See also:

• WARRIOR

warrior woman in See also:

• ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

armour (from O . H . Ger. brunjo, brunja, M . H . Ger. brunige, brunje, brunne, a See also:

• CUIRASS (Fr. cuirasse, Lat. coriaceus, made of leather, from corium, the original breastplate being of leather)

cuirass or coat of See also:

• MAIL

mail, O . Eng. byrnie, and O . H . Ger. hiltja, hilta, See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war), and in the Norse versions of the Nibelung myth, which preserves more of the See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive traditions than the See also:

• NIBELUNGENLIED, or DER NIBELUNGE NOT

Nibelungenlied, See also:

• BRUNHILD (M.H.Ger. Briinhilt or Priinhilt, Nor. Brynhild?)

Brunhild is a valkyrie, the daughter of See also:

• ODIN, or OTHIN (O. Norse 66inn)

Odin, by whom, as a See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment for having against his orders helped a warrior to victory, she has been See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast under a spell of See also:

• SLEEP (0. Eng. slcepan; Ger. schlafen; cf. Lat. labi, to glide, and " slip ")

sleep on Hindarfjell, a lonely See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock See also:

• SUMMIT

summit, until the destined See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero shall penetrate the See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall of See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire by which she is surrounded, and See also:

• WAKE (A.S. wacan, to " wake " or " watch ")
• WAKE, THOMAS (1297-1349)
• WAKE, WILLIAM (1657-1737)

wake her . This is a variant of the widespread myth which survives in the popular See also:

• FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

fairy-See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of "the sleeping beauty." The ingenuity of some See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German scholars has made of Brunhild a personification of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, held prisoner upon the See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill-tops till in the See also:

• MORNING

morning the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun-See also:

• GOD

god comes to her See also:

• RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)

rescue, then triumphing with him awhile, only to pass once more under the spell of the See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of mist and darkness . She is thus by some commentators contrasted with " the masked warrior woman " See also:

• KRIEMHILD (GRIMHILD)

Kriemhild (q.v.), a personification of the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of See also:

• NIGHT

night and See also:

• DEATH

death . But whatever be the dim See also:

• ORIGINAL

original of the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of Brunhild—as to which authorities are by no means agreed—even in the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern versions its mythical See also:

• INTEREST

interest is quite subordinate to its purely human interest .

In the Volsungasaga she is the heroine of a tragedy of See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion and wounded See also:

• PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

pride; it is she who compasses the death of See also:

• SIGURD (Sigur6r)

Sigurd, who has broken his troth plighted to her, and then immolates herself on his funeral pyre in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order that in the See also:

• WORLD

world of the dead he may be wholly hers . In the Nibelungenlied, on the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, she plays a comparatively colourless role . She still possesses superhuman attributes: like See also:

• ATALANTA

Atalanta, she can only be won by the See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man who is able to overcome her in trials of See also:

• SPEED, JOHN (1552–1629)

speed and strength; but, instead of a valkyrie sleeping on a lonely rock, she is, when Sigfrid goes to woo her on behalf of See also:

• GUNTHER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1695-1723)

Gunther, See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen of Yslant (Isenlant), living in a See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle called the Isenstein . In the tragedy of the death of Sigfrid her See also:

• PART

part is completely overshadowed by that of " the grim See also:

• HAGEN
• HAGEN, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH VON DER (178o-1856)

Hagen," and from the moment that the See also:

• MURDER

murder is decided on she drops almost completely out of the story . The poet of the Nibelungenlied evidently knew nothing of the See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale of her self-immolation; for, though he has nothing definite to say about her after Sigfrid's death, he keeps her alive in a sort of dignified retirement . In the last 5000 lines or so of the poem Brunhildis only mentioned four times and takes no active part in the story . (See further under NIBELUNGENLIED.) (W . A .