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truepennyWhen I was little, I wanted to grow up to be a Valkyrie.
I got the blonde okay, but my genes didn't listen to me. When you top out at 5'4", you are simply not Valkyrie material.
All this is slightly beside the point.
For various reasons (::waves at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala::) I've been thinking about Norse names recently, and today (inspired in some strange way by the hot-pants wearing Hound of Tindalos) I just went ahead and searched that treasure-trove, The Pronouncing Index of Proper Names to the Eddas, for the names of Valkyries.
Geironul
Geirskogul
Gol
Gondul
Guth
Herfjotur
Hild
Hlokk
Hrist
Mist
Randgrith
Rathgrith
Reginleif
Skeggjold
Skogul
Skuld
Thruth
I also found the name Borghild, and my mind took a vertiginous sideways swoop into an alternate reality where Star Trek was written by crazed Norsemen. Because obviously, Borghild is what the crew of a demented Norse Voyager would call Seven of Nine.
I got the blonde okay, but my genes didn't listen to me. When you top out at 5'4", you are simply not Valkyrie material.
All this is slightly beside the point.
For various reasons (::waves at
matociquala::) I've been thinking about Norse names recently, and today (inspired in some strange way by the hot-pants wearing Hound of Tindalos) I just went ahead and searched that treasure-trove, The Pronouncing Index of Proper Names to the Eddas, for the names of Valkyries.Geironul
Geirskogul
Gol
Gondul
Guth
Herfjotur
Hild
Hlokk
Hrist
Mist
Randgrith
Rathgrith
Reginleif
Skeggjold
Skogul
Skuld
Thruth
I also found the name Borghild, and my mind took a vertiginous sideways swoop into an alternate reality where Star Trek was written by crazed Norsemen. Because obviously, Borghild is what the crew of a demented Norse Voyager would call Seven of Nine.
