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This work considers Valkyries in the medieval Scandinavian mythology and literature and places them in the context of the early history of European religion. Drawing on textual and archaeological sources, a detailed review of Celtic, Etruscan and Graeco-Roman female demons of the battlefield and of death is presented, and their remarkable similarity with the Valkyries analysed against the background of Mediterranean-transalpine cultural contacts.

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Die sprachlich und quellenm ig weit ausgreifende, gr ndliche und grundlegende Untersuchung schlie t mit einer umf nglichen Bibliographie und einem knappen Register. Klaus D wel in: Germanistik 1-2/2011

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Matthias Egeler, St Catharine s College, Cambridge, UK?.

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