Helgakviða Hundingsbana II
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"Völsungakviða in forna" or "Helgakviða Hundingsbana II" is an Old Norse poem found in the Poetic Edda. It constitutes one of the Helgi lays together with Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hjör
Helgi returns to Valhalla
Sigrún waiting by Helgi's barrow
Valkyrie
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In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin's hall Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar. When the einherjar are not
Helgakviða Hundingsbana II
…the marriage and sought out Helgi, who was exhausted from a battle in which he had killed Hunding's sons Eyjólfr, Álfr, Hjörvarðr and Hávarðr. The Valkyrie embraced him and kissed him, and Helgi promised her to fight against Granmarr and his sons. Helgi assembled an army and invaded Granmar's kingdom…
The picture stone Lilbjärs III, showing a helmeted woman receiving a man with a horn of mead. On picture stones, the recurring motif of a woman receiving a man with a horn is generally interpreted as a dead man being received by a valkyrie at Valhalla.
The valkyries Hildr, Þrúðr and Hlökk bearing ale in Valhalla (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
The Valkyræ, by Johann Georg Heck
Walkyrien (c. 1905) by Emil Doepler