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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Éowyn narrates the story, and tells how the story of Héra, a would-be shieldmaiden of Rohan and the daughter of King Helm Hammerhand, will not be remembered...
- Vidfamne Lif and Lifthrasir Nór Ohthere Ragnar Lodbrok Rerir Raum the Old Shieldmaiden Sigi Sigmund Signy Sigurd Sigurd Hring Skirnir Skjöld Starkad Sveigðir...
- Webiorg, Wigbiorg or Veborg (died 750), was a legendary Scandinavian shieldmaiden who, according to the sagas, parti****ted in the Battle of Bråvalla,...