Valkyries : maidens who served the god Odin & were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla, the Scandinavian heaven for heroes he favoured (cf. Elysium). These foreboders of war rode to the battlefields on horses, wearing helmets & shields.
... shall guard or shall end him." Then to the boy delighted and smiling-eyed and exultant Cried with her voice like the call of heaven's bugles waking the heroes, Blown by the lips of gold-haired Valkyries, Penthesilea. "Go, find the spear, gird the sword, don the cuirass, child of the mighty. Armed when thou standst on the plain of the Xanthus, field of thy fathers, See that thou fight on this day ...
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