What is Brunhilde?
'''Brunhilde''' was a mighty female warrior, one of the [[Valkyrie]]s. She was also a heroine from the German epics, especially in the Nibelungen saga, in which she is an Icelandic princess. She defied [[Odin]] and in punishment he imprisoned her within a ring of fire on earth. She had to stay there until someone rescued her. Siegfied (Sigurd) braved the fire, woke her, and fell in love with her. He gave her the ring Andvarinaut, unaware of its curse. Eventually she killed herself when she learned that Sigurd had betrayed her with another woman (Gudrun), not knowing he had been bewitched into doing so by Grimhild. ==Sources== * http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brunhilde.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026141151/http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/brunhilde.html |date=2014-10-26 }} {{religion-stub}} [[Category:Norse mythology]]