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- ****ociated with the mythical Valkyries, which may have inspired the shieldmaidens. They may have also been inspired by accounts of Amazons. The term Shield-maiden...
- time, Saxo thought of women only as ****ual beings. To him, the Viking shieldmaidens who refused this role were an example of the disorder in old heathen...
- members of his entourage, his attendants/handmaidens/shield bearers/shieldmaidens, Astrape and Bronte. Because of his years of faithful service to Zeus...
- of the Rings. She is a noblewoman of Rohan who describes herself as a shieldmaiden. With the hobbit Merry Brandybuck, she rides into battle and kills the...
- warriors: his brother Rollo, his son Björn Ironside, and his wives—the shieldmaiden Lagertha and the princess Aslaug. Vikings: Valhalla portrays Leif and...
- may also have been active within military offices: the tales about shieldmaidens are unconfirmed, but some archaeological finds such as the Birka female...
- may also have been active within military office: the stories about shieldmaidens are unconfirmed, but some archaeological finds such as the Birka female...
- Germany and Ireland, and three hundred female soldiers, so-called Shieldmaidens, were on Harald's side; the most famous one, besides Visna and Harald's...
- to kill them all. Freydís returns to Kattegat and trains to become a shieldmaiden with Altöra, Haakon's second-in-command. Haakon recounts her own vision...
- ruler of Denmark as well. He put an jarl in charge of Skåne and made a shieldmaiden the ruler of the rest of Denmark (cf. Chronicon Lethrense, below). Sigurd...