# Queen Brynhild — Styrbiorn the Strong character guide

> Queen Brynhild in Styrbiorn the Strong by E. R. Eddison.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Brynhild

**First appearance:** 0018-xvi-valhalla

## Who they are

A legendary queen, appears in a vision or tale.

## In the story

### [I: On King Olaf's Howe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/styrbiorn_the_strong_se/chapters/i-on-king-olaf-s-howe)

Also called Sigrid the Haughty; meets Styrbiorn on the howe, speaks of seeing the dead, and shows a strange fear and ambition.

### [VII: Eric and Styrbiorn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/styrbiorn_the_strong_se/chapters/vii-eric-and-styrbiorn)

Mentioned as carrying the infant Olaf; rumors link her to Styrbiorn.

### [A Banquet in Upsala](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/styrbiorn_the_strong_se/chapters/ix-a-banquet-in-upsala)

Subject of the skald's song 'Hell-ride of Brynhild'; Styrbiorn imagines Queen Sigrid as Brynhild.

### [X: Broken Meats in Upsala](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/styrbiorn_the_strong_se/chapters/x-broken-meats-in-upsala)

Visits Styrbiorn in the night, is trapped by him in her chamber, and later accuses him of violence to King Eric.

### [King Eric's Hosting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/styrbiorn_the_strong_se/chapters/xiv-king-eric-s-hosting)

Proposes a cunning plan to use beasts of burden armed with pikes to disrupt Styrbiorn's advance, and instructs Helgi to place Styrbiorn's prized ox in the front.

### [XV: Fyrisfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/styrbiorn_the_strong_se/chapters/xv-fyrisfield)

Waits anxiously for news, learns of the victory from Thorgnyr, and meets the victorious King Eric at dusk.

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