Definitions for Borghild

Borghild Borg·hild

Spelling: [bawrg-hild]
IPA: /ˈbɔrgˌhɪld/

Borghild is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in Borghild (bdghilor).

Definitions for Borghild

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  1. (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.

Examples for Borghild

Not many months after this, word was brought to him that Borghild was dead.

He marries Borghild, who later kills Sinfiotli with a poisoned drink, and is cast away by Sigmund.

When he came home, Borghild bade him go away, but Sigmund offered the blood-fine, which it was incumbent on her to accept.

During that winter Truls and Borghild seldom saw each other.

Borghild lifted her eyes, and they met those of the fiddler.

Borghild, in order to prove her innocence, walked on glowing plough-shares, and endured the test.

Sigmund now married Borghild, who hated Sinfjotli and poisoned him.

King Sigmund sojourned long in Denmark, in Borghild's kingdom, after having espoused her.

The years slipped by, and before Borghild knew it, she had grown into womanhood.

Borghild bore another horn to Sinfiotli, and prayed him to drink, when all took place as before.

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