The Religious Affiliation of
Valkyrie
Brunnhilde

Religion: Norse/Teutonic paganism (Asgardian)

Name: Valkyrie

Alter Ego: Brunnhilde

Other Names: Valkyrie I; Brunnhilda; Brynhildr; Bright-Battle; Barbara Denton-Norris; Samantha Parrington; Shield-Maiden; Sian Bowen

Classification:  hero  

Publisher(s):

First Appearance: The Avengers (vol. 1) #83 (Dec. 1970): "Come on in, the Revolution's Fine!"

Creators: Roy Thomas, John Buscema, Tom Palmer

Super? (Has Super Powers/Special Abilities/Technology): Yes

Number of Appearances: 325

   Comic Book Appearances: 323

   TV, Film Appearances: 2

Teams/Affiliations: The Defenders

Planet: Asgard, The Nine Worlds

Gender: female

Note: former Chooser of the Slain

This character is in the following 189 stories which have been indexed by this website:
The Avengers (vol. 1) #83 (Dec. 1970): "Come on in, the Revolution's Fine!"
Black Knight (vol. 2) #4 (Sep. 1990): "Knight and Day"
Captain America

Captain America (vol. 1) #179 (Nov. 1974): "Slings and Arrows!" (1-panel cameo)
Captain America (vol. 1) #268 (Apr. 1982): "Peace on Earth -- Good Will to Man"
Captain America (vol. 1) #338 (Feb. 1988): "Power Struggle" (cameo)
Captain America (vol. 3) #50 (Feb. 2002): "Stars & Stripes Forever"

Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3 (Oct. 2009): "Hidden Depths" (1-panel cameo)
The Defenders

The Defenders (vol. 1) #4 (Feb. 1973): "The New Defender!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #13 (May 1974): "For Sale: One Planet--Slightly Used!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #14 (July 1974): "And Who Shall Inherit the Earth?"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #15 (Sep. 1974): "Panic Beneath the Earth!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #16 (Oct. 1974): "Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #17 (Nov. 1974): "Power Play!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #18 (Dec. 1974): "Rampage!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #21 (Mar. 1975): "Enter: The Headmen!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #22 (Apr. 1975): "Fangs of Fire and Blood!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #23 (May 1975): "...The Snakes Shall Inherit the Earth!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #24 (June 1975): "--In the Jaws of the Serpent!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #25 (July 1975): "The Serpent Sheds its Skin"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #26 (Aug. 1975): "Savage Time!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #27 (Sep. 1975): "Three Worlds to Conquer!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #28 (Oct. 1975): "My Mother, the Badoon!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #29 (Nov. 1975): "Let My Planet Go!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #30 (Dec. 1975): "Gold Diggers of Fear!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #31 (Jan. 1976): "Nighthawk's Brain!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #32 (Feb. 1976): "Musical Minds!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #33 (Mar. 1976): "Webbed Hands, Warm Heart!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #34 (Apr. 1976): "I Think We're All Bozos in this Book!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #35 (May 1976): "Bring Back My Body to Me, to Me...!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #36 (June 1976): "A Garden of Earthly Demise!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #37 (July 1976): "Evil in Bloom!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #38 (Aug. 1976): "Exile to Oblivion!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #39 (Sep. 1976): "Riot in Cellblock 12!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #40 (Oct. 1976): "Love, Anarchy and, Oh Yes... the Assassin!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #41 (Nov. 1976): "Intruder in the Sand!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #42 (Dec. 1976): "And in this Corner: The New Emissaries of Evil!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #43 (Jan. 1977): "This World Is Mine!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #44 (Feb. 1977): "Rage of the Rajah!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #45 (Mar. 1977): "We Must Free the Defenders!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #46 (Apr. 1977): "Who Remembers Scorpio?"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #47 (May 1977): "Night Moves!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #48 (June 1977): "Who Remembers Scorpio? Part One: Sinister Savior!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #49 (July 1977): "Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Two: Rampage"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #50 (Aug. 1977): "Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Three Scorpio: Must Die!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #51 (Sep. 1977): "A Round with the Ringer!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #52 (Oct. 1977): "Defender of the Realm!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #53 (Nov. 1977): "The Power Principle, Part One: The Prince and the Presence!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #54 (Dec. 1977): "The Power Principle, Part Two: A Study in Survival!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #55 (Jan. 1978): "The Power Principle, Part Three: Emotion, Ego... and Empty Expectations!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #56 (Feb. 1978): "Val's New York Adventure!" (lead character)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #57 (Mar. 1978): "And Along Came... Ms. Marvel!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #58 (Apr. 1978): "Xenogenesis Day of the Demons, Part 1: Agents of Fortune"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #59 (May 1978): "Xenogenesis Day of the Demons, Part 2: Tyranny and Mutation"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #60 (June 1978): "Xenogenesis Day of the Demons, Part 3: The Revenge of Vera Gemini!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #61 (July 1978): "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Lunatik!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #62 (Aug. 1978): "Membership Madness!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #63 (Sep. 1978): "Deadlier by the Dozen!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #64 (Oct. 1978): "D-Day!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #65 (Nov. 1978): "Of Ambitions and Giant Amoebas"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #66 (Dec. 1978): "Val in Valhalla, Part One: War of the Dead!" (lead character)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #67 (Jan. 1979): "Val in Valhalla, Part Two: We, the Unliving..." (lead character)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #68 (Feb. 1979): "Valhalla Can Wait!" (lead character)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #69 (Mar. 1979): "The Anything Man!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #70 (Apr. 1979): "Catch a Falling Lunatik!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #71 (May 1979): "Stranger & Stranger in a Strange Land"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #72 (June 1979): "Up from the Sky!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #73 (July 1979): "Of Wizards, Shadows & Kings"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #74 (Aug. 1979): "Fools Rush In!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #75 (Sep. 1979): "Poetic Justice"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #76 (Oct. 1979): "Little Triggers!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #77 (Nov. 1979): "Waiting for the End of the World!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #78 (Dec. 1979): "The Return of the Original Defenders!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #79 (Jan. 1980): "Chains of Love!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #80 (Feb. 1980): "Once a Defender"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #81 (Mar. 1980): "War in Ogeon!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #83 (May 1980): "End of the Tunnel"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #84 (June 1980): "Battle Royal!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #85 (July 1980): "Like a Proud Black Panther..."
The Defenders (vol. 1) #86 (Aug. 1980): "The Left Hand of Silence!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #87 (Sep. 1980): "Inquest"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #88 (Oct. 1980): "Lord of the Whales"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #89 (Nov. 1980): "A Death in the Family!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #90 (Dec. 1980): "Mind Over Mandrill!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #91 (Jan. 1981): "Defiance"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #92 (Feb. 1981): "Eternity...Humanity...Oblivion!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #93 (Mar. 1981): "The Woman Behind the Man!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #94 (Apr. 1981): "Beware--The Six-Fingered Hand!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #95 (May 1981): "The Vampire Strikes Back!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #96 (June 1981): "The Rock and Roll Conspiracy!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #97 (July 1981): "Slouching Toward Bethlehem"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #98 (Aug. 1981): "The Hand Closes!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #99 (Sep. 1981): "The Final Conflict?"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #100 (Oct. 1981): "Hell on Earth!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #101 (Nov. 1981): "Renewal!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #102 (Dec. 1981): "Mind Games!" (only on cover)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #103 (Jan. 1982): "The Haunting of Christiansboro!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #104 (Feb. 1982): "Yesterday Never Dies!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #106 (Apr. 1982): "The War to End All Wars!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #107 (May 1982): "On Death and Dying..."
The Defenders (vol. 1) #108 (June 1982): "The Wasteland"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #109 (July 1982): "Vengeance! Cries the Valkyrie" (lead character)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #110 (Aug. 1982): "...Hunger..." (only on cover)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #112 (Oct. 1982): "Strange Visitor from Another Planet!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #113 (Nov. 1982): "Moon Madness!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #114 (Dec. 1982): "Dance of Darkness/Dance of Light!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #115 (Jan. 1983): "A Very Wrong Turn!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #116 (Feb. 1983): "Two By Two"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #117 (Mar. 1983): "The Gift"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #118 (Apr. 1983): "The Double!" (only on cover)
The Defenders (vol. 1) #119 (May 1983): "Ashes, Ashes...We All Fall Down!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #120 (June 1983): "Sanctuary!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #121 (July 1983): "Savior!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #122 (Aug. 1983): "Things to Come!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #123 (Sep. 1983): "Of Elves and Androids!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #124 (Oct. 1983): "Darkness On the Edge of Time!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #125 (Nov. 1983): "Hello, I Must Be Going. (or...Mad Dogs and Elvishmen!)"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #126 (Dec. 1983): "State of the Union!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #127 (Jan. 1984): "Cloud Hidden!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #128 (Feb. 1984): "Assault on the Empire"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #129 (Mar. 1984): "Countdown"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #130 (Apr. 1984): "And in the End!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #131 (May 1984): "If This Be Walrus...!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #132 (June 1984): "The Phantom of Gamma-Ray Flats"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #133 (July 1984): "The Pajusnaya Consignment"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #134 (Aug. 1984): "Manslaughter"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #135 (Sep. 1984): "The Fire at Heaven's Gate"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #136 (Oct. 1984): "Bodies and Souls"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #137 (Nov. 1984): "Hearts and Minds"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #138 (Dec. 1984): "Three Women"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #139 (Jan. 1985): "Hungry Like the Wolf!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #140 (Feb. 1985): "The Heartbreak Kid!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #141 (Mar. 1985): "All Flesh is Grass!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #143 (May 1985): "Another Runner..."
The Defenders (vol. 1) #144 (June 1985): "Dragon Midnight"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #145 (July 1985): "Five Women"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #146 (Aug. 1985): "Fun!"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #147 (Sep. 1985): "...and Games"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #149 (Nov. 1985): "Lonely as a Cloud"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #150 (Dec. 1985): "The Stars in Their Courses"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #151 (Jan. 1986): "Second Degree Manslaughter"
The Defenders (vol. 1) #152 (Feb. 1986): "The End of All Songs"
The Defenders (vol. 2) #1 (Mar. 2001): "Once More, the End of the World..." (someone disguised or dressed as)
The Defenders (vol. 2) #2 (Apr. 2001): "The Curse" (someone disguised or dressed as)
The Defenders (vol. 2) #3 (May 2001): "The Armies of the Slain" (someone disguised or dressed as)
The Defenders (vol. 2) #4 (June 2001): "Ride of the Valkyrie"
The Defenders Annual #1 (Oct. 1976): "World Gone Sane?"

Foolkiller (vol. 1) #2 (Nov. 1990): "The Calling" (cameo)
Giant-Size Defenders

Giant-Size Defenders #1 (July 1974): "The Way They Were!"
Giant-Size Defenders #1 (July 1974): "The Dynamic Defenders!"
Giant-Size Defenders #2 (Oct. 1974): "H...as in Hulk...Hell...and Holocaust!"
Giant-Size Defenders #3 (Jan. 1975): "Games Godlings Play!"
Giant-Size Defenders #4 (Apr. 1975): "Too Cold a Night For Dying!"
Giant-Size Defenders #5 (July 1975): "Eelar Moves in Mysterious Ways!"

Hulk

Hulk (vol. 3) #7 (Dec. 2008): "Hell Hath No Fury..."
Hulk (vol. 3) #8 (Jan. 2009): "...Like a Woman Scorned!"
Hulk (vol. 3) #9 (Feb. 2009): "The Revenge of the Lady Liberators"

Iceman (vol. 1) #3 (Apr. 1985): "Quicksand!" (cameo)
Marvel Comics Presents (vol. 1) #168 (Late Nov. 1994): "Freedom" (lead character)
Marvel Fanfare

Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #20 (May 1985): "Vess Pocket Portfolio"
Marvel Fanfare (vol. 1) #20 (May 1985): "Pottspourri"

Marvel Super-Hero Contest of Champions #1 (June 1982): "A Gathering of Heroes!"
Marvel Team-Up

Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #34 (June 1975): "Beware the Death Crusade!" (lead character)
Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #116 (Apr. 1982): "Between Sword and Hammer!" (lead character)

Marvel Treasury Edition #12 (Jan. 1976): "The Duck and the Defenders"
Marvel Two-in-One

Marvel Two-in-One (vol. 1) #6 (Nov. 1974): "Death-Song of Destiny!" (mentioned)
Marvel Two-in-One (vol. 1) #7 (Jan. 1975): "Name That Doom!" (lead character)

Marvel: The Lost Generation #5 (Oct. 2000): "Wild in the Streets"
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (24 Oct. 2006)
The Mighty Avengers

The Mighty Avengers (vol. 1) #22 (Apr. 2009) (1-panel cameo)
The Mighty Avengers (vol. 1) #23 (May 2009) (1-panel cameo)

Moon Knight Saga (Oct. 2009) (mentioned)
Omega the Unknown Classic

Omega the Unknown Classic (Dec. 2005): "Poetic Justice"
Omega the Unknown Classic (Dec. 2005): "Little Triggers!"
Omega the Unknown Classic (Dec. 2005): "Waiting for the End of the World!"
Omega the Unknown Classic (Dec. 2005): "The Return of the Original Defenders!"

The Secret Defenders #1 (Mar. 1993): "A Gathering of Heroes" (cameo)
She-Hulk Vol. 7: Here Today... (Mar. 2009): "Cosmic Collision"
She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision #1 (Feb. 2009): "Cosmic Collision"
Thor

Thor (vol. 1) #172 (Jan. 1970): "The Immortal and the Mind-Slave!" (cameo)
Thor (vol. 1) #296 (June 1980): "From Valhalla--A Valkyrie!"
Thor (vol. 1) #299 (Sep. 1980): "Passions and Potions"

Thunderbolts (vol. 1) #57 (Dec. 2001): "Storm Clouds Gathering" (cameo)
Venom

Venom (vol. 2) #15 (June 2012): "Home Again"
Venom (vol. 2) #21 (Sep. 2012): "Savage Six, Part 4: The Best Laid Plans..."
Venom (vol. 2) #22 (Oct. 2012): "Father's Day"
Venom (vol. 2) #23 (Oct. 2012): "Monsters of Evil: Part 1"
Venom (vol. 2) #28 (Feb. 2013): "The Land Where Killers Dwell"
Venom (vol. 2) #29 (Mar. 2013): "Drowning in a Nightmare"
Venom (vol. 2) #30 (Mar. 2013): "The Unwanted"

Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_(Marvel_Comics)
  - http://www.comicvine.com/valkyrie/29-6809/
  - http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0158135/
  - http://www.comicboards.com/marvelguide/v.htm
  - http://www.marvunapp.com/master/vaavam.htm
  - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539930/