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A shield-maiden (Old Norse: skjaldmær [ˈskjɑldˌmæːr]) was a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology. The term Old Norse: skjaldmær most often shows up in fornaldarsögur such as Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. However, female warriors are also mentioned in the Latin work Gesta Danorum. [1]
Frankish swords like the VLFBERHT had a higher carbon content, making them more durable, and their design was much more manoeuvrable compared to Scandinavian made swords. [5] Although smaller weapons like daggers, knives, and arrowheads could be manufactured in Scandinavia, the best swords and spearheads were undoubtedly imported.
Near the sword was a small knife made of iron and a whetstone. Two spearheads, the larger appearing to be the remains of a spear thrust into the grave and the smaller appearing to be from a spear that was thrown in. Additionally, 25 arrowheads of the Wegraeus Type D1, were all that remained of arrows and quiver .
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.
The sword is given to him by Alberich. After Ortnit is killed by the dragon, the sword is found by Wolfdietrich, who kills the dragon with it. [49] Ridil: Old Norse: Riðill: In modern Norwegian (ridel) and Icelandic (riðill) the name means "piece of wood for tying up nets". [50] The sword Sigurd used to cut out the dragon Fafnir's heart. [51 ...
The name Randalín which she is called in Ragnars saga loðbrókar, when she joins her sons to avenge their brothers Agnarr 4 and Eric 3 in Sweden, is probably from Randa-Hlín, which means "shield-goddess", i.e. a kenning for "Valkyrie". [187] Aslaug was the daughter of Sigurd and the shield-maiden Brynhild.
The Viking Age sword (also Viking sword) or Carolingian sword is the type of sword prevalent in Western and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages.. The Viking Age or Carolingian-era sword developed in the 8th century from the Merovingian sword more specifically, the Frankish production of swords in the 6th to 7th century and during the 11th to 12th century in turn gave rise to the ...
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 ...