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  2. Onna-musha - Wikipedia

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    Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, [1] [2] who were members of the bushi class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] many of them fought in battle alongside samurai men.

  3. 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.

  4. List of women warriors in folklore - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Bellona (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    Bellona (IPA: [bɛlˈloːna]) was an ancient Roman goddess of war. Her main attribute is the military helmet worn on her head; she often holds a sword, spear, or shield, and brandishes a torch or whip as she rides into battle in a four-horse chariot.

  6. Women in ancient warfare - Wikipedia

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    The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton University Press, 2014) online review; Toler, Pamela D. Women warriors: An unexpected history (Beacon Press, 2019). Wilde, Lyn Webster. On the trail of the women warriors: The Amazons in myth and history (Macmillan, 2000).

  7. Aphrodite Areia - Wikipedia

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    A Roman copy of a statue of Aphrodite Areia found in Epidaurus, with the original created by the Polykleitos school.. Aphrodite Areia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ἀρεία) or "Aphrodite the Warlike" was a cult epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, in which she was depicted in full armor like the war god Ares. [1]

  8. Valkyrie - Wikipedia

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    'chooser of the slain') is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin's hall Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar ('single fighters' or 'once fighters'). [3] When the einherjar are not preparing for the cataclysmic events of Ragnarök, the valkyries bear them mead.

  9. Weapons and armor in Chinese mythology, legend, cultural ...

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    The mighty warrior, later general, and subsequently deified Guan Yu is particularly associated with his glaive weapon, known in China as a yanyuedao, "crescent moon blade", or as a guandao. Guan's blade-weapon is known as the Green Dragon Crescent Moon Sword or as the Frost Fair Blade, from the idea that during a battle in the snow, the blade ...