Svava

Valkyrie in the Helgarkvida Hiorvardssonar (Lay of Helgi Hiorvardsson, Poetic Edda). Svava was a daughter of Eylimi. If this Eylimi was the same king as in the Icelandic saga of the Volsungs, then this would make her the sister of Hjordis, who was the wife of Sigmund and mother of Sigurd. But this seems unlikely because Helgi Sigmundsson was supposed to be the reincarnation of Helgi Hiorvardsson.

Svava was a Valkyrie, and the poem referred to her as a shield-maiden.

Svava was riding with eight other Valkyries where she met Helgi, son of Hiorvard and Sigrlinn, and she gave him the name Helgi (his parents had never given a name at birth, until Helgi and Svava met).

Helgi and Svava married, but Hedin, Helgi's half-brother, desired Svava for himself. In the duel, Hedin mortally wounded her lover. Helgi told his wife that Svava should marry and sleep with Helgi's killer (Hedin), but she rejected her husband's proposal. It would seem that Svava died with Helgi, and they were both reincarnated. She as Sigrun, and he as Helgi Sigmundsson.