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Borghild

[ bawrg-hild ]

noun

  1. (in the Volsunga Saga ) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.


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Example Sentences

When he came home, Borghild bade him go away, but Sigmund offered the blood-fine, which it was incumbent on her to accept.

King Sigmund sojourned long in Denmark, in Borghild's kingdom, after having espoused her.

Borghild bore another horn to Sinfiotli, and prayed him to drink, when all took place as before.

And Borghild's courage, too, rose and fell with the flickering motion of a flame which wrestles with the wind.

Truls knew the voices only too well; it was Syvert Stein and Borghild who were singing a stave.

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