Comes from the Proto-Germanic word hild means - "battle; battle-maid". Or form of the name Brunhild and interpretation is - "shieldmaiden".
St. Hilda was born in 614. She was the grandniece of king Edwin of Northumbria, a kingdom of the Angles. In the year 647 her household became Christian, and she decided she wanted to become a nun.
St Hilda died 17 November 680.
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