Entitled: Brünnhilde. Cat dressed in Viking helmet and shield. Brunhild is a powerful female figure from Germanic heroic legend. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden or valkyrie. Richard Wagner made Brunhild (as Brünnhilde) an important character in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Adolph E. Weidhaas, 1936 (cropped and cleaned).