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The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct portrait of Joan of Arc has not survived; this artist's interpretation was painted between AD 1450 and 1500.
Additionally, the term is found in the name of a ship and in the nickname of a poet. In modern English, it can refer to a generic female warrior, but is also used to refer specifically to a type of character appearing in the fornaldarsögur. Confusingly, it is sometimes used to refer to hypothetical female warriors in the Viking Age.
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr ), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain ...
Get ready to feel energized and ready to take on the world—these warrior-inspired names for boys and girls are powerful and incredibly cool. Related: 100 Star Names for Boys & Girls (With Outer ...
g&l images/Getty Images. As in Joan of Arc—it doesn’t get much more warrior-like than the patron saint of France. 11. Diana. Although this name of Greek and Latin origin means “divine,” it ...
"The Angel warrior" – Angelo Polli, anti-Nazi Italian General Commander of Bersaglieri, first Italian high officer prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps captured on 9 September 1943 in Malles. Chronicles tell that he was directly tortured by Hitler to make him swear under him by giving a signal to the Italian rebel prisoners IMI.
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