Grimhilde IronSpear – Queen Grimhilde (The Evil Queen from Snow White) and Brunhilda the Valkyrie
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Grimhilde_IronSpear
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Queen_Grimhilde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunhild
Grimhilde IronSpear is Taylor Coleridge’s former First Mate. She is also the younger sister of Gunnhilde IronSpear.
Grimhilde’s spirit sends your wizard to give solace to other former members of Taylor Coleridge’s crew including her sister. She promises to longer haunt Captain Coleridge once you have finished her quests.
Queen Grimhilde (Queen Ingrid’ in Mirror, Mirror (A Twisted Tale)), more commonly known across popular media as The Evil Queen or simply The Queen, is the main antagonist of Disney’s 1st full-length animated feature film Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, which is based on the 1812 German fairytale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm.
Her most famous incarnation is in the Disney film, but the origin of the story goes as far back as folklore itself. Being a popular fairytale, Disney’s film had a very tremendous impact on how she is seen as a villain and introduced the concept of her Magic Mirror and her ultimate transformation from a young and beautiful woman to an ugly old hag and she is also the Huntsman’s former mistress. She is Snow White’s stepmother as well as her arch-rival and the arch-enemy of the Seven Dwarfs. She was voiced by the late Lucille La Verne (in her last film role) in the film.
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 and queen 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.” The Nibelungenlied introduces her by saying:
There was a queen who resided over the sea,
Whose like no one knew of anywhere.
She was exceedingly beautiful and great in physical strength.
She shot the shaft with bold knights – love was the prize.
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“Brunnhild” (1897) by Gaston Bussière is borrowed from Wikipedia and is in the public domain
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