wishmay
(ˈwɪʃmeɪ)
[transl. ON. óskmær, f. ósk wish (see wish v.) + mær maiden, may n.1]
A Valkyrie.
| 1863 W. K. Kelly Curios. Indo-Europ. Tradit. 216 The Wishmays or Valkyries. 1889 R. B. Anderson tr. Rydberg's Teut. Mythol. 156 A giantess who had been adopted in Asgard as Odin's ‘wish-may’. |