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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. Her tale was recorded by the chronicler Saxo in the 12th century. According to the historian Judith Jesch, Saxo's tales about warrior women are largely fictional; other historians wrote that they ...
The Viking women discover their men, led by Vedric (Brad Jackson), had earlier washed ashore and were now imprisoned by Stark to work in his mines. The women eventually escape, liberate their men, and escape to the seashore. The Vikings paddle out in a longboat pursued by Stark and his men. Vedric manages to spear the sea serpent which sails ...
List of women warriors in folklore. 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 ...
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] Both the fornaldarsögur and Gesta ...
Olga ( Church Slavonic: Ольга; [ 3][ a] Old Norse: Helga; [ 4] c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) [ 5] was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. [ b] She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor.
Blythe, James M. "Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors," History of Political Thought (2001), v. 22 pp. 242–269. Edgington, Susan B. and Sarah Lambert, eds. Gendering the Crusades (2002), 13 scholarly articles
Category. : Viking Age women. North Germanic women from the Viking Age (roughly 8th to 11th century).
Viking women generally appear to have had more freedom than women elsewhere, [183] as illustrated in the Icelandic Grágás and the Norwegian Frostating laws and Gulating laws. [184] Most free Viking women were housewives, and a woman's standing in society was linked to that of her husband. [183]