[transl. ON. óskmær, f. ósk wish (see WISH v.). + mær maiden, MAY sb.1] A Valkyrie.
1863. W. K. Kelly, Curios. Indo-Europ. Tradit., 216–7. The Wishmays or Valkyries, the manes of whose horses dropped dew upon the earth, filled the drinking-horns for the gods and the warriors in Odin’s hall.
1889. R. B. Anderson, trans. Rydberg’s Teut. Mythol., 156. A giantess who had been adopted in Asgard as Odin’s ‘wish-may.’
