As punishment for her defiance, Odin removed Brunnhildes godly powers and immortality and cast her into a trance. Brunnhilde helped Siegmund's pregnant lover, Sieglinde, get to safety. Brunnhilde, recognizing that Odin was acting against his true wishes, sought to protect Siegmund, but Odin himself then caused Siegmund's death. Circumstances reluctantly forced Odin to decree that Siegmund must be slain. Brunnhilde served Asgard capably in this capacity for centuries.Īccording to a sentient, disembodied eye that one belonged to Odin, the Asgardian monarch once gave his son Thor the mortal identity of the warrior Siegmund. She has claimed to be not "just an Asgardian" and to have served something older than Asgard, but what she meant by this statement is as yet unknown.īrunnhilde was selected by Odin, monarch of the gods of the other-dimensional realm of Asgard, to lead the Valkyrior, the Choosers of the Slain, a group of warrior goddesses who would appear over the battlefields of mortal worshippers of the Asgardian gods and choose which of the fallen were worthy to be taken to Valhalla, the land of the honored dead in the dimension of Asgard. The origin of Brunnhilde the Valkyrie remains a mystery.
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