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Scáthach (Irish: [ˈsˠkaːhəx]) or Sgàthach (Scottish Gaelic: Sgàthach an Eilean Sgitheanach) is a figure in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She is a legendary Scottish warrior woman and martial arts teacher who trains the legendary Ulster hero Cú Chulainn in the arts of combat.
Muirisc, legendary warrior princess, daughter of Úgaine Mór (Hugony the Great), the sixty-sixth high king of Ireland. Triple warrior goddess: Morrígan, Badb, and Macha (could also include Nemain and Anann) On St Kilda, one of the most isolated islands of Scotland, legends exist of a female warrior.
Other female figures from Celtic mythology include the weather witch Cailleach (Irish for 'nun,' 'witch,' 'the veiled' or 'old woman') of Scotland and Ireland, the Corrigan of Brittany who are beautiful seductresses, the Irish Banshee (woman of the Otherworld) who appears before important deaths, the Scottish warrior women Scáthach, Uathach ...
A large proportion of the women for whom biographical details survive were members of the royal houses of Scotland. Some of these became important figures. There was only one reigning Scottish Queen in this period, the uncrowned and short-lived Margaret, Maid of Norway (r. 1286–90). Some girls of noble families were taught in nunneries. By ...
"The woman warrior: gender, warfare and society in medieval Europe" Women's Studies – an Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (1990), pp. 193–209. Nicholson, Helen. "Women on the Third Crusade", Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997), pp. 335–449. Solterer, Helen. "Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs 16 (1991), pp. 522–549 ...
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023: The green movement may seem like a boys’ club. But many green pioneers were women, writes historian and philanthropist Lisbet Rausing Voices: We owe much to ...
It includes Medieval Scottish saints that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female saints of medieval Scotland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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