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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]
Birka grave Bj 581 held a female Viking warrior buried with weapons during the 10th century in Birka, Sweden. Although the remains had been thought to be of a male warrior since the grave's excavation in 1878, both a 2014 osteological analysis and a 2017 DNA study proved that the remains were of a female. A 2017 study claimed the person in Bj ...
The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). 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 ...
Freydís Eiríksdóttir (born c. 965) [1] was an Icelandic woman said to be the daughter of Erik the Red (as in her patronym), who figured prominently in the Norse exploration of North America as an early colonist of Vinland, while her brother, Leif Erikson, is credited in early histories of the region with the first European contact.
Saxo's depiction of women warriors is also colored by misogyny: Like most churchmen of the time, Saxo thought of women only as sexual beings. To him, the Viking shieldmaidens who refused this role were an example of the disorder in old heathen Denmark that was later cured by the Church and a stable monarchy. [3]
Related to the Old Norse herja and Old High German herjón (meaning "devastate") [15] Nafnaþulur: Hlaðguðr svanhvít "Hlaðguðr swan-white" [16] Völundarkviða: Hildr "Battle" [17] Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, Nafnaþulur: Hjalmþrimul Possibly "Helmet clatterer" or "female warrior" [18] Nafnaþulur: Hervör alvitr
On Viking Expeditions of Highborn Maids: Two female warriors, of royal family according to the crowns on their heads, are participating in a sea battle." From Olaus Magnus ' A Description of the Northern Peoples from 1555.
Anglo-Norse women (4 P) D. Viking Age women in Denmark (2 C) I. Viking Age women in Iceland (3 C) N. Norman women (3 C) Viking Age women in Norway (3 C) R.