- ****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...
- 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...
-
queen Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the
Norse tradition,
Brunhild is a
shieldmaiden or valkyrie, who
appears as a main
character in the Völsunga saga and...
- 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...
-
unreturned attachment to Aragorn.
Feeling rejected, she says she is a
shieldmaiden, and
against orders,
chooses to go and
fight in the
Battle of the Pelennor...
-
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...
- It
describes Ragnar's rise to fame, his
marriages (including to the
shieldmaiden Lagertha and the
noblewoman Thora Borgarhjort), and his
legendary deeds...
- may also have been
active within military offices: the
tales about shieldmaidens are unconfirmed, but some
archaeological finds such as the
Birka female...
- the
Gesta Danorum, Alfhild,
daughter of the
Geatish king Siward, was a
shieldmaiden who had her own
fleet of
longships with
crews of
young female pirates...
