Brunhilda

Brunhilda, also Brunhild, is name of several women in history and tradition. In Germanic tradition, Brunhild, is a masculine queen in the medieval German epic poem "Nibelungen Lied" who offered to marry the man that could beat her in feats of strength, was deceived by Siegfried into marrying Gunther, and meditated the death of Siegfried, who had married her rival Chriemhilda, which she accomplished by the hand of Hagen.

Another Brunhilda (c. 543 – 613) was a queen of Austrasia, who, had a lifelong quarrel with Fredegunde, queen of Neustria, the other division of the Frankish world, which at her death she seized possession of for a time, but was overthrown by Clothaire II., Fredegunde's son, and dragged to death at the heels of an infuriated wild horse.

Nearby pages
Brunn, Bruno Bauer, Bruno Bettelheim, Bruno the Great, Brunonian System