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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The warrior nun Myōrin is celebrated in the Tsurusaki region of the Ōita city, and Ōhōri Tsuruhime is the protagonist in local folklore and festivals on Ōmishima island. Several other samurai-class women are celebrated in pop culture, commerce, and folklore.
Women warriors in literature and culture, an archetype in legend and literature; The Woman Warrior (1975), a memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston; Warrior Woman (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain character; Hippolyta (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain turned superhero, who also uses the alias "Warrior Woman"
Bronze of a young female warrior in Lombard costume. Francesco Porzio, Monumento alla difesa di Casale, 1897 A virago is a woman who demonstrates abundant masculine virtues. . The word comes from the Latin word virāgō (genitive virāginis) meaning "vigorous maiden" [1] from vir meaning "man" or "man-like" (cf. virile and virtue) to which the suffix -āgō is added, a suffix that creates a ...
Indian women warriors (1 C, 13 P) M. Mulan (2 C, 4 P) V. Valkyries (2 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Women warriors" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of ...
Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena), was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush from the end of the 1st century BCE to beginning of the 1st century CE. [1] She is known for invading Roman occupied Egypt and successfully negotiating the end of Roman retaliation, [2] retaining Kushite independence.