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List of women warriors in folklore. 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 ...
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] Both the fornaldarsögur and Gesta ...
Lamashtu. Lamia (Basque mythology) Lauma. Leanan sídhe. Legend of the White Snake. Les Lavandières. Likhoradka. Lilith (Lurianic Kabbalah) List of female monsters in literature.
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr ), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain ...
Some commentators describe Tolkien as placing women only in background roles while the male protagonists see all the action. Arwen sewing Aragorn's banner, by Anna Kulisz, 2015, inspired by Edmund Leighton's 1911 Stitching the Standard. The roles of women in The Lord of the Rings have often been assessed as insignificant, or important only in relation to male characters in a story about men ...
The portrayal of women warriors in literature and popular culture is a subject of study in history, literary studies, film studies, folklore history, and mythology. The archetypal figure of the woman warrior is an example of a normal thing that happens in some cultures, while also being a counter stereotype, opposing the normal construction of ...
With the NBA schedule revealed for the 2024-25 fantasy basketball season, ... Warriors vs. Celtics. ... 2 women were murdered six years apart. Now DNA evidence links a suspect, police say