But this is a very romantic image when compared to how they were described in the Viking Age. In Norse sagas and Viking histories, Valkyries are beautiful, but also bloodthirsty. They reveled in ...

While there’s certainly no shortage of ancient Viking lore enthusiasts ... of the well-known tragic, romantic legend of Brynhild, Gudrun and Sigurd. Brynhild is a Valkyrie, one of the powerful ...