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In contrast to the beliefs of the caste and clan-based warrior, who saw war as a place to attain valor and glory, warfare was a practical matter that could change the course of history. That was the approach of the Roman legions , which had only the incentive of promotion, as well as a strict level of discipline.
Possibly "Helmet clatterer" or "female warrior" [18] Nafnaþulur: Hervör alvitr: Alvitr possibly means "all-wise" or "strange creature" [19] Völundarkviða: Hjörþrimul "The sword warrioress," derived from Old Norse hjörr ("sword") and þrima ("battle, noise") [18] Darraðarljóð, Nafnaþulur: Hlökk "Noise, battle" [12] Grímnismál ...
Warrior, a novel in the Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time series; Warrior, a 2008 novel by Allan Mallinson; Warrior, a 1991 novel by Ann Maxwell, under the pseudonym Elizabeth Lowell; Warrior, a 1990 novel by Donald E. McQuinn, the first volume in the Moondark Saga; Warrior, a 1990 novel by Kevin D. Randle, under the pseudonym Eric Helm
Slain Tame, The Warrior Valtýr Slain God Valþognir Slain Receiver Vegtam Wanderer or Way-tame Baldrs draumar (6, 13) Veratýr Veratyr God of men, God of being Gylfaginning, Óðins nǫfn (8) Viðfräger Wide Famed Viðrir Vidrir Stormer Gylfaginning, Skáldskaparmál, Lokasenna (26) Hrafnagaldr Óðins (9) Viðrímnir, Viðhrimnir
A ghazi (Arabic: غازي, Arabic pronunciation:, plural ġuzāt) is an individual who participated in ghazw (غزو, ġazw), meaning military expeditions or raids.The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expeditions led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and later taken up by Turkic military leaders to describe their wars of conquest.
Warrior follows Ah Sahm, played by Andrew Koji, a martial artist who emigrates to the United States in the late 1870s in search of his missing sister, and is soon drawn into the underground world ...
Warriors are people who engage in violent conflict. They are as varied as the cultures, places, and time periods from which they come. Some fight unarmed, while others wield weapons of varying degrees of complexity and power.
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.