Brunhilda of Austrasia
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Brunhilda was queen consort of Austrasia, part of Francia, by marriage to the Merovingian king Sigebert I of Austrasia, and regent for her son, grandson and great-grandson.
The strangling of Queen Galswintha by Chilperic I.
Brunhilde is dragged to her death
The murder of Brunhilda, from De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, attributed to Maître François, Paris, c. 1475
Tomb of Brunhilda in the abbey church before 1790 (early 19th-century engraving by Alexandre Lenoir)
Brunhild
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Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild, is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess and queen Brunhilda of Austrasia.
Brunhilda of Austrasia
…highways in today's Northern France and South-Western Belgium, called "Chaussée Brunehaut". Many scholars have seen Brunhilda as inspiration for both Brunhild and Kriemhild, two rival characters from the Nibelungenlied. Kriemhild married Siegfried, who in many respects resembles Sigebert, Brunhilda's husband…
"Brunnhild" (1897) by Gaston Bussière
Sigrdrífa giving Sigurd a drinking horn; illustration on the 11th-century Drävle Runestone
French operatic soprano Rose Caron as Brunhild at Théâtre de La Monnaie, Brussels, 1884
Illustration of Helreið Brynhildar, 1893