Ortlinde

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Ortlinde is a female given name. It goes back to the figure of Valkyrie Ortlinde in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (first performance in 1870).

The name was probably formed from the Old High German words ort for the tip (a weapon) and linta for shield (made of lime wood).

Name variants are Ortlind , Ortlinda and Ortlindo (male).

In Munich's Bogenhausen district, there is also an Ortlindestraße in a neighborhood with streets named after characters from Wagner operas .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ shield. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 110 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ^ Ortlindestraße, Munich