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Walkyrie

Walkyrie is the alternative form of valkyrie.

Meaning of valkyrie

Noun

valkyrie (plural valkyries)

  1. (Norse) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.
    • Wagner's “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (1853) famously features valkyries.

Forms of Walkyrie

pluralWalkyries

Questions about Walkyrie

What is Walkyrie the alternative form of?
Walkyrie is the alternative form of valkyrie.

Words near Walkyrie in the dictionary

  1. walkways
  2. walky-talkies
  3. walky-talky
  4. Walkyr
  5. Walkyrian
  6. Walkyrie
  7. Walkyries
  8. Walkyrs
  9. wall
  10. wall angel
  11. wall angels

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Walkyrie (page history and authors); valkyrie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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