Wikipedia
Hild or Hildr may refer to:
- Hildr, a common noun meaning "battle" in the Old Norse language.
- Hildr or Hild is one of the Valkyries in Norse mythology, a personification of battle
- Hild or Hilda of Whitby is a Christian saint who was a British abbess and nun in the Middle Ages
- Hild (Oh My Goddess!), the ultimate Demon in Hell known as the Daimakaichō in the Oh My Goddess! series
- Hild (novel), a 2013 novel about Hilda of Whitby by Nicola Griffith
Hild is a 2013 historical novel and the sixth novel by British author Nicola Griffith. The book was first published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on November 12, 2013 and in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2014 through Blackfriars Books. Griffith has stated that the book will be the first in a trilogy and that the tentative title for the second book will be Menewood. Hild is a fictionalized telling of the life of Hilda of Whitby, also known as Hild of Streanæshalch, a significant figure in medieval Britain.
The book includes a map, a glossary of terms, and a pronunciation guide.
Usage examples of "hild".
Ilk a man as he loves, let him send to the Cooks, It is eith to swim where the head is hild up.
House require a gag on mollies, but Hilder likes to break the rules, fancying himself more important than he is.
The brown, incensed at being deprived of a larger meal, quickly smelled the offering and scuttled into the cage, which Hilder closed and pulled back up.
Bulling past prisoners, startling Marrow, I leapt on to the plank, blocking Hilder and the others.
I jumped down from the Pit wall to the chamber floor hearing others fighting for the coins Hilder had won from Gilly.
Near as I can make out, that was the first talk Hilder made about Wasters.
As near as I could make out from the news summaries, these Hilder people are a minority.
Those who were against Hilder shied away from membership, which would have meant decisions that would be continually embarrassing.
And he could see the abyss, deep and black as space, into which would drop forever the political hopes of John Hilder and of every opponent of space fight left on Earth-his own included, of course.
He knew a spot where crime was due - aboard the tramp steamer Zouave, captained by Jason Hilder, with Rigger Luxley, missing mobleader, on ship accompanied by a squad of killers.
Captain Jason Hilder stood at the wheel, looking downward from the bridge.
His countenance was the most extraordinary one that Hilder had ever seen.
As he guided the slow-moving steamer, Hilder watched the repair work progress.
He was wearing that same masklike countenance that had impressed Captain Hilder and the clerk at the Goliath.
Miller was shown into a small waiting room adorned by several Rowland Hilder prints of the Cotswolds in autumn.