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How do I look?.... I told my Royal Hairdresser, Blaze, to give me that wild untamed look.....what do you think? |
Hi, Time Travellers! |
Baby Girl Here! |
I'm so excited! I get to have a gab fest with the famous Valkyries! |
Butterbye thought up my hat....but it keeps moving all the time... a girl could get whiplash trying to keep up with it! I knew I should have used my personal fashion designers Flare & Glare! |
Too late now, here they come! Take a look! |
None other than the famous warrior maidens of Odin. And WOW! They're led by none other than Queen Freya ! I just love all that sparkling armour....have to ask them who their fashion designer is! You know, I read in Valkeryie Today that their sparking armour supposedly created the famed Aurora Borealis, or the northern lights. Now that's a lot of sparkle! |
"Hi girls! it's me, HRH Commander Princess Baby Girl !" |
"Well, hello to you too! You're Baby Girl?"...asked Freya, "Didn't expect a....a.....well you're different that's for sure." |
"Well, you're also not the typical girl next door either are you, Mmmmmmm?" |
There was a very big silence as the other Valkyries held their breathes...... suddenly Freya started laughing..... |
"Got a point....... you'll make a good Valkyrie, got spirit and certainly guts to talk to me like that....so what do you want to know?" |
"Anything and everything....like how did you get the job? what do you do and how do you spend your free time...and...." |
"First things first, let me introduce you to some of the girls.This is Brynhildr (" Byrnie of battle"), and this is Hildr(" Battle"), Sigrdrífa ("She who Drives Victory"), Sigrún ("Knower of Spells of Victory") and Þrúðr ("Strength") and daughter of Thor. Skogul (“Raging”), Hlokk (“Shrieking”) and Gjoll (“Screaming”) had some clean up work to do.." They all nodded their hello. "And, of course, you know me...." |
"What does your name mean and what do you mean they had some clean up work?" "I don't like to brag, but I've got a whole lot of names but for now lets settle for Possessor of the Slain and Goddess Beautiful in Tears. As for Skogul, Hlokk and Gjoll, they had to stay behind and serve drinks, look after the tableware and drinking vessels in Valhalla." |
"Doesn't sound very Valkyrie to me...." "Hey a girl's gotta do what a girl's got to do, and the tips are good!" shouted Brynhildr. "And we are Choosers of the Slain" added Sigrdrífa,. " "Ok.....OK! So how did you get into this line of work?" |
"It was all Odin's idea" "???????" "You see Odin needed warriors to fight at his side at the preordained battle at the end of the world, Ragnarök. So tag, you're it girls....our mission, had we decided to accept it, not that we had much choice, was to choose the most heroic of those who had died in battle and to carry them off to Valhalla where they became einherjar." |
"An einherjar?" "Sort of like a spirit army". They haven't got it so bad though... Every day they are awakened by Gullinkambi, a rooster, and march out to the great field of Idavoll in the heart of Asgard to fight against each other in merry (and mortal) combat. Then at dusk, when they are all cut to pieces, they're miraculously healed, and march back into Valhalla, where Andhrímnir, the cook of the gods, has fixed up a meal for them from the pork of Sæhrímnir, a pig that is reborn every day, and the mead milked from Heiðrún, a goat feeding on the leaves of Yggdrasil. SOo they spend the evening and night in feasting , served by us until they all fall asleep, solidly drunk" explained Sigrún. "Gosh!" exclaimed Baby. |
"So what do you do on the battlefield?" "Oh, that's easy" explained Þrúðr. " We shriek, howl and cause total confusion. Why? Because we can grab any warrior we fancy, and take him away. There is only one rule though: the bewildered chump or champion must be dead first. That's not to say, if we see a real handsome hunk we don't give him a little push to help him on his way." |
"Yes, but Odin only gets half of the warriors" interjected Freya. "I get the other half, the good-looking heroes, they go straight to Fólkvangr, my palace, for rest and recuperation. Look Baby...it's time to ride..... I hear Skogul, Hlokk and Gjoll in the distance....so are you ready for your first battle as a Valkyrie? Can you make a lot of noise?" "Don't worry about the noise, my brothers always say I have a voice that can be heard in the next galaxy. Of course, they don't know I know what they say, but I get even in my own way" replied Baby, with a sly smile on her face. |
"Brothers...did you say brothers?" said all the girls in unision and with a strange glint in their eyes. "Yeah.....in fact I need to find them and Butterbye, and see what they're up to" "Butterbye"? "I'll explain later" |
"Well....what are we waiting for?" yelled Freya. "Let's go find the brothers!" "Hey.....Wait for me!....Well, Time Travellers, see you later! Maybe you can find the others and warn them?" trailed Baby's voice as she went shrieking and yelling just like a Valkyrie. |
Music Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner |
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