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One of a seafaring Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of northern and western Europe from the eighth through the tenth century.

In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (; from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries take their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin.

A Scandinavian.

Any of Odin's handmaidens who conducted the souls of the slain to Valhalla.

One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.

(Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries

(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla