LADIES OF LORE→val·kyr·ie (v l-kîr , -k r , v l k -r ) n.
Then gleamed a ray
from Logafjelli,
and from that ray
lightning issued.
High, with helms,
from Heavens home [came the Valkyries]:
their corslets were
with blood besprinkled,
and from their spears
shone beams of light.
-Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, the Poetic Edda