In the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, for example, the valkyrie Sigrún lingers after ... female spirits doing the commands of the war god, stirring up disorder, taking part in battle, seizing ...

These assistants to the Norse god of war then accompanied the dead ... The partly hollow Hårby Valkyrie, however, may have adorned the top of a magical staff, Henriksen and Petersen wrote.

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...