Brunhild

Examples

• All

• We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish.

  Fiction book (1999)

• King Gunther... ...do you take Brunhild as your wife and queen?

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• Queen Brunhild, please let me talk to you.

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• Brunhild, I have done you a terrible wrong.

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• And do you, Brunhild... ...accept my king as your rightful husband and lord?

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• It would be an honour... ...Queen Brunhild.

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• I know it wasn't my brother who defeated Brunhild.

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• Queen Brunhild, come quickly.

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• Please, Queen Brunhild.

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

• They could only be bettered by the great Queen Brunhild... ...and the extraordinary King Gunther.

  Ring of the Nibelungs (2004)

Synonyms

B

Brunnhilde

vsBrunhild

• Literature

1 9.9

A woman in old German and Norse stories who loves a hero and dies tragically

is the same Valkyrie tale but named in a simpler Old Norse form

B

Brynhild

vsBrunhild

• Literature

1 9.9

A woman in Norse legend who is a warrior and a tragic lover

is the same legendary queen but recorded with a different spelling

B

Brynhildr

vsBrunhild

• Literature

9.9

A warrior woman and queen in old Norse stories who loved the hero Siegfried and killed herself after his death

is the same figure but in a later Germanic spelling

Surface Forms

Etymology