Valkyrie
In Norse legend, these warrior maidens serve Odin, deciding who falls and who prevails in battle. They are known to escort the souls of fallen warriors to Valhalla.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Norse mythology
- Trait family
- The Rain-Serpents
- Symbols
- Horse
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Symbols
Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.
- Horse bears image-domain The horse denotes harnessed striving power, mount of gods, sun and sea alike, carrying the dead as psychopomp and the living into their conquests.
why
Clad in gleaming armor and often depicted riding winged horses through the sky, Valkyries are beings of immense power and grace.
Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Chooses who dies in battle
why
These celestial entities serve as the direct agents of Odin, the All-Father, tasked with the sacred duty of selecting those who are destined to fall in battle and those who will emerge victorious.
- Escorts souls of the dead
why
In Norse legend, these warrior maidens serve Odin, deciding who falls and who prevails in battle. They are known to escort the souls of fallen warriors to Valhalla.
- Messenger of a deity
why
These celestial entities serve as the direct agents of Odin, the All-Father, tasked with the sacred duty of selecting those who are destined to fall in battle and those who will emerge victorious.