DOMINION AVIATRIX.
“OUR MODERN BRUNHILDE.” LONDON, Nov. 24. “Our modern Brunhilde” was, the epithet Lord Londonderry applied to Miss Jean Batten at the arjiual banquet of the City Livery Clul* at which she was a guest. Pie added: “Her splendid achievements are indelibly and eternally written on all the records of aviation.”
Brunhilde was the most famous of the Valkyries or warrior maidens of Norse mythology. Placed by her father Odin (Wotan) on a fire-girt rock, she lay in spellbound sleep until the hero, Sigurd, rode through the flames and woke her. Faithless to his plighted troth, Sigurd afterwards helped Gunnar, the King’s son of Rhineland, to win Brunhilde by a cunning ruse and claimed as a reward the hand of Gudrun, Gunnar’s sister. When Brunhilde learnt, through Gudrun’s jealous tongue, of Sigurd's deed, she plotted his death, and, her vengeance accomplished, threw herself on his funeral pyre. So runs the Volsung Saga.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 25 November 1937, Page 11
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