Swanhild
# Swanhild

Swanhild or Svanhild may refer to:

## Historical

* Swanachild, Bavarian princess who became the wife of Charles Martel (c. 688–741)
* Swanhild, wife or concubine of King Harald Fairhair of Norway (c. 850–933)
* Swanehilde of Saxony (c. 945-1014), daughter of Hermann Billung, Margrave of Saxony, and wife of Thietmar and Eckard I, Margraves of Meissen
* Swanhild, abbess of Herford Abbey in Saxony (c. 1051–1076)
* Swanhilda of Eguisheim (c. 1025-1050), ancestor of many European royal families
* Swanhilde of Ungarnmark (d. 1120), Austrian royal consort
* Svanhild Sponberg (fl. 1965-1973), Norwegian handball player
* Svanhild of Essen [de] (d. 1085), German abbess.

## Arts and literature

* Svanhildr, daughter of Sigurd and Gudrun in northern European mythology
* Swanhild, a character in Henrik Ibsen's play Love's Comedy (1862)
* Swanilda/Swanhilde, the heroine of the ballet Coppélia (1870)
* Swanhild, a character in H. Rider Haggard's book Eric Brighteyes (1890)
* Swanhilde, a character in César Franck's opera Hulda (1894)
