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Brewer's: Issland
The kingdom of Brunhild is identified by Von der Hagen with Iceland, but Wackernagel says it means Amazonian land, and derives it from the Old German itis (a woman). (The Nibelungen Lied.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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