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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 ...
Pages in category "Female legendary creatures" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 211 total. ... Samodiva (folklore) Sânziană ...
Son to King Ban and Elaine, most famous for his affair with Queen Guinevere, Arthur's wife, most prominent Knight of the Round Table Lanval† Landevale, Launfal, Lambewell Lanval, late 12th century Sir Landevale, Sir Launfal, Sir Lambewell: A knight of King Arthur's court who falls in love with a fairy Laudine: Lady of the Fountain
Ala – Female demon that brings bad weather to farms in Balkan folklore. Alp – Nightmare creature from Germanic Mythology. Anguane – (Germany, Austria) Female spirits with hooves and dangling breasts. Associated with aiding lost persons and in female fertility. Arkan sonney – Fairy creature resembling a pig in Manx folklore.
Fictional female knights (15 P) N. Fictional female ninja (47 P) S. ... List of women warriors in folklore; Women warriors in literature and culture; A. Aldrea ...
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]
Vântoase, female spirits of the wind; Zmeu, a fantastic creature; Scandinavia. Knights of Ålleberg, are the ghosts of twelve knights that died in the Battle of Ålleberg in 1389; Landvættir; Myling, a child ghost; Baba Yaga and Maiden-birds by Ivan Bilibin, 1902. Slavic folklore
Satyress is the female equivalent to satyrs. They are entirely an invention of post-Roman European artists, as the Greek satyrs were exclusively male and the closest there was to female counterparts were the nymphs , altogether different creatures who, however, were nature spirits or deities like the satyrs.