Swanhild

Swanhild or Svanhild may refer to:

Historical

  • Swanachild, Bavarian princess who became the wife of Charles Martel (c. 688–741)
  • Swanhild, wife or concubine of King Harald Fairhair of Norway (c. 850–933)
  • Swanehilde of Saxony (c. 945-1014), daughter of Hermann Billung, Margrave of Saxony, and wife of Thietmar and Eckard I, Margraves of Meissen
  • Swanhild, abbess of Herford Abbey in Saxony (c. 1051–1076)
  • Swanhilda of Eguisheim (c. 1025-1050), ancestor of many European royal families
  • Swanhilde of Ungarnmark (d. 1120), Austrian royal consort
  • Svanhild Sponberg (fl. 1965-1973), Norwegian handball player
  • Svanhild of Essen (d. 1085), German abbess.

Arts and literature

  • Svanhildr, daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun in northern European mythology
  • Swanhild, a character in Henrik Ibsen's play Love's Comedy (1862)
  • Swanilda/Swanhilde, the heroine of the ballet Coppélia (1870)
  • Swanhild, a character in H. Rider Haggard's book Eric Brighteyes (1890)
  • Swanhilde, a character in César Franck's opera Hulda (1894)
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