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Valkyr

Valkyria \Val*kyr"i*a\, n. [Icel. valkyrja (akin to AS. w[ae]lcyrie); valr the slain + kj[=o]sa to choose. See Valhalla, and Choose.] (Scand. Myth.) One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. [Written also Valkyr, and Walkyr.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Valkyr

see Valkyrie.

Wikipedia
Valkyr (manga)

is an erotic thriller manga by Senno Knife about a doctor who creates an android in his daughter's image that becomes uncontrollable.

Usage examples of "valkyr".

I know that it almost conquered the Universe aeons ago, ere the god Valkyr sealed it within the Iron Tower.

And Valkyr, even Valkyr the Hero and Champion of the Gods, was tempted by the power that lay in his hands.

But one of them, Zargon the Lord of Punishment and Reward, decreed that for this crime Valkyr must lose his divinity.

But they could withdraw from Valkyr his divine status and submerge him in the young races that had arisen upon the planets of the Universe, not nurtured into being by the Children of the Fire Mist.

Thus was it done, and the soul of Valkyr went into eternal imprisonment, to live through ten million human lives until it was deemed that he had expiated his crime.

He half hoped that in the extremity of his need he would contact the ghost of Valkyr within his ancestral memory, but nothing chanced.

Patrolman-Tech First-Class Valkyr, out behind the station workshop, curses the portable plastic-formant rig.

Her impartial curses at the solvent, the rig, and Valkyr blue the air comfortingly.

First-Class Valkyr, out behind the station workshop, curses the portable plastic-formant rig.

Raised up on wings of the Valkyr to battle and sing until the day of fire, the final battle, when you ride by the side of the Father of All and Frey.

Let the Valkyr come for them and carry them across the shining bridge to the Halls.

How would you act if you beheld a big blonde Valkyr suddenly introducing herself into your little earthly affairs?

I felt thoroughly and unspeakably ashamed of myself, for I caught sight of Olga high on her wagon, like a Valkyr on a cloud, and Dinky-Dunk hard at work a good two miles away.

Down and crashing down fell the trees, the noise of their fall accompanying the battle chant of the Valkyr beside me like wild harp chords of storm-lashed surf.

The Valkyrs, as white clad virgins with flowing ringlets, wait on them in the capacity of cup bearers.