Según cuentan las leyendas... la valkiria Sigrdrifa (ventisca de victoria) era muy admirada por su hermoso pelo... del cual, para algunos bardos, florecía la nieve más pura y brillante… y el viento que la traía a los campos de batalla, después de una guerra, junto con la llegada de la aurora boreal significaba que ella esta ahí, protegiéndote... o ayudándote a ir al Valhala…

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SIGRDRÍFA

Sigrdrífumál o Brynhildarljóð es uno de los poemas heroicos de la Edda poética. Relata el encuentro de la valquiria Sigrdrífa con el héroe Sigurðr. En su mayor parte consiste de los consejos que le da Sigrdrífa, incluyendo críticas referencias a la mitología nórdica y runas mágicas. La métrica de la obra es fornyrðislag.

El comienzo del poema fue conservado en el Codex Regius, donde viene a continuación de Fáfnismál. El final se encuentra en ocho hojas que se perdieron del manuscrito pero fue preservado en copias posteriores. La saga Völsunga describe la escena y contiene algunos versos.

1. "What bit through the byrnie? | how was broken my sleep?
Who made me free | of the fetters pale?"

He answered:
"Sigmund's son, | with Sigurth's sword,
That late with flesh | hath fed the ravens."

Sigurth sat beside her and asked her name. She took a horn full of mead and gave him a memory-draught.

2. "Hail, day! | Hail, sons of day!
And night and her daughter now!
Look on us here | with loving eyes,
That waiting we victory win.

3. "Hail to the gods! | Ye goddesses, hail,
And all the generous earth!
Give to us wisdom | and goodly speech,
And healing hands, life-long.

4. "Long did I sleep, | my slumber was long,
And long are the griefs of life;
Othin decreed | that I could not break
The heavy spells of sleep."

Her name was Sigrdrifa, and she was a Valkyrie. She said that two kings fought in battle; one was called Hjalmgunnar, an old man but a mighty warrior, and Othin had promised him the victory, and

The other was Agnar, | brother of Autha,
None he found | who fain would shield him.

Sigrdrifa, slew Hjalmgunnar in the battle, and Othin pricked her with the sleep-thorn in punishment for this, and said that she should never thereafter win victory in battle, but that she should be wedded. "And I said to him that I had made a vow in my turn, that I would

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