Brynhild Budlasdotter

738 - 775  (37 years)

• Name	Brynhild Budlasdotter  [1, 2]
  Birth	738	Buskerud, Norway   [1, 2]
  	Ringerike, Buskerud, Norway
  Gender	Female
  Military - Old World	Shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Norse mythology  [3]
  		_BRUNHILDA (Valkyrie Shieldmaiden) Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr [ˈbrynˌhildz̠], Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or…
  Notable Quote	Brünnhilde appears in Wagner's Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung operas  [3]
  		_BRUNHILDA (Valkyrie Shieldmaiden) Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr [ˈbrynˌhildz̠], Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or…
  Death	775	Buskerud, Norway   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I9980	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Sigurd Sigmundsson,   b. 729, Buskerud, Norway d. Abt 775, Germany (Age 46 years)
  Marriage End	Abt 775  [3]
  	Death of Sigurðr. Whenhis funeral pyre was aflame, she threw herself upon it – thus they passed on together to the realm of Hel
  		_Funeral of Sigurd and Brynhild
  Children	1. Kraka Sigurdsdatter,   b. Abt 765, Buskerud, Norway d. Abt 842, Buskerud, Norway (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3362	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 738 - Buskerud, Norway Death - 775 - Buskerud, Norway  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Old World » Slide Show		_Brunhild Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr, Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or valkyrie, who appears as…
  		_BRUNHILDA (Valkyrie Shieldmaiden) Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr [ˈbrynˌhildz̠], Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or…
  		_Funeral of Sigurd and Brynhild

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Aslög Kraka Sigurdsdatter [S202] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2014;). [S1013] Wikipedia: Brunhild, (Name: Wikipedia;), Brunhild. Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr [ˈbrynˌhildz̠], Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or valkyrie, who appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the same events. In the continental Germanic tradition, where she is a central character in the Nibelungenlied, she is a powerful Amazon-like queen. In both traditions, she is instrumental in bringing about the death of the hero Sigurd or Siegfried after he deceives her into marrying the Burgundian king Gunther or Gunnar. In both traditions, the immediate cause for her desire to have Sigfried murdered is a quarrel with the hero's wife, Gudrun or Kriemhild. In the Scandinavian tradition, but not in the continental tradition, Brunhild kills herself after Sigurd's death. Richard Wagner made Brunhild (as Brünnhilde) an important character in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. The majority of modern conceptions of the figure have been inspired or influenced by Wagner's depiction. Brunhild has been called "the paramount figure of Germanic legend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunhild