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  2. Shield-maiden - Wikipedia

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    The term Shield-maiden is a calque of the Old Norse: skjaldmær.Since Old Norse has no word that directly translates to warrior, but rather drengr, rekkr and seggr can all refer to male warrior and bragnar can mean warriors, it is problematic to say that the term meant female warrior to Old Norse speakers.

  3. Lagertha - Wikipedia

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    Lagertha as imagined in a lithography by Morris Meredith Williams in 1913. Lagertha, according to legend, was a Viking ruler and shield-maiden from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous Viking Ragnar Lodbrok.

  4. Black Shield Maiden - Wikipedia

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    Black Shield Maiden is a 2024 historical fantasy novel by Willow Smith and Jess Hendel.The novel follows Yafeu, a Ghanaian warrior, who is kidnapped from her home and taken to Viking age Scandinavia where she ultimately becomes a shield-maiden in service to a local princess. [1]

  5. Rusla - Wikipedia

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    Rusla, also known as the "Red Woman" from Middle Irish Ingean Ruagh, [1] was a legendary Norwegian shield-maiden mentioned in the Gesta Danorum or "History of the Danes" of Saxo Grammaticus and in the Irish annals.

  6. Alf and Alfhild - Wikipedia

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    But Alfhild, advised by her mother, fled from Alf dressed as a man, and she became a shield maiden. Alf and his Scanian comrade, Borgar, together with their Danish sea-warriors, searched for and eventually found Alfhild and her fleet by the coast of southern Finland. After some deadly fighting aboard the ships, Alfhild's helmet was knocked off ...

  7. Shieldmaiden - Wikipedia

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  8. Éowyn - Wikipedia

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    Éowyn is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.She is a noblewoman of Rohan who describes herself as a shieldmaiden.. With the hobbit Merry Brandybuck, she rides into battle and kills the Witch-King of Angmar, Lord of the Nazgûl, in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.

  9. Birka grave Bj 581 - Wikipedia

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    Archaeologist David Zori noted, "numerous Viking sagas, such as the 13th-century Saga of the Volsungs, tell of 'shield-maidens' fighting alongside male warriors". [ 10 ] A study led by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson published in September 2017 noted Kjellström's "osteological analysis triggered questions concerning sex, gender and identity ...