Kára
In Norse mythology, Kára is a valkyrie, attested in the prose epilogue of the Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II.
The epilogue details that "there was a belief in the
Káruljóð, which has not survived.[1]
The name Kára either means "the wild, stormy one" (based on Old Norse afkárr, meaning "wild") or "curl" or "the curly one" (from Old Norse kárr).
runic inscriptions, which means "the one with the (long?) Odin's curls."[2]
Notes
References
- Höfler, Otto (1952). Germanisches Sakralkönigtum. Tübingen, Münster, Köln.
- Larrington, Carolyne (Trans.) (1999). The Poetic Edda. ISBN 0-19-283946-2
- Simek, Rudolf (2007) translated by Angela Hall. Dictionary of Northern Mythology. ISBN 0-85991-513-1
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