Swanhild

Swanhild may refer to:

Historical

• Swanachild, Bavarian princess who became the wife of Charles Martel (ca. 688–741)
• Swanhild, wife or concubine of King Harald Fairhair of Norway (ca. 850–933) and mother of kings Bjørn Farmann of Vestfold and Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf of Vingulmark
• Swanhild (ca. 945-1014), daughter of Hermann Billung, Margrave of Saxony, and wife of Thietmar, Margrave of Meissen
• Swanhild, abbess of Herford Abbey in Saxony (ca. 1051–1076)
• Swanhilda of Eguisheim (ca. 1025-1050), ancestor of many European royal families

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)