Grimhild

[ grim-hild ]

noun

1. (in the Volsunga Saga ) a sorceress, the wife of Gjuki and the mother of Gudrun and Gunnar. She gave Sigurd a potion to make him forget Brynhild so that he would marry Gudrun.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Grimhild¹

< Old Norse Grīmhildr, equivalent to grím ( a ) mask + hildr battle

Example Sentences

Sigurd rode thence and came to the King who is named Gjuki; his wife is named Grimhild; their children were Gunnar, H�gni, Gudrun, Gudny; Gotthorm was a step-son of Gjuki.

From Project Gutenberg

From Brynhild's rock Sigurd journeys to a realm "south of the Rhine" where dwell the kingly brothers, Gunnar, Hogni, and Guttorm, the Niblungs, together with their sister Gudrun, "the fairest of maidens", and their mother Grimhild, "a wise wife" and a fierce-hearted woman, as the Volsunga Saga alternately describes her.

From Project Gutenberg

During this time Brunhild was always in his memory, and he talked so often of her that at length the evil heart of Grimhild, the queen, was roused to jealousy.

From Project Gutenberg

But Grimhild was a witch-wife—a fierce-hearted woman, learned in magic and filled with crafty wile.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the proud Dame Grimhild drew    Her mantle o’er her head, And into the stone chamber    To her warriors all she sped.

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