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Norman McCormick · 20th October 2016, 08:08 PM

Hi,
Perhaps these 'ginger maidens' are more appropriate to this site as all but one are bearing arms.
On a more serious note the notion of Shieldmaidens as a fiction of the sagas is being rethought as osteoarchaeologists are finding that a number of Viking era graves filled with weapons that were assumed to be the burials of male warriors are in fact internments of females. Whether they were warriors or not is still debatable but knowing Nordic and Celtic women as well as I do including a mother and daughter who are particularly close to me

, I have no doubt that these redoubtable women took their place in the Viking shield wall and in the Celtic war chariots along with their male counterparts. Bonnie lassies one and all.

Regards,
Norman.

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/...and-valkyries/

http://www.medievalhistories.com/war...e-scandinavia/

20th October 2016, 08:08 PM	#20
Norman McCormick Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,610	Hi, Perhaps these 'ginger maidens' are more appropriate to this site as all but one are bearing arms. On a more serious note the notion of Shieldmaidens as a fiction of the sagas is being rethought as osteoarchaeologists are finding that a number of Viking era graves filled with weapons that were assumed to be the burials of male warriors are in fact internments of females. Whether they were warriors or not is still debatable but knowing Nordic and Celtic women as well as I do including a mother and daughter who are particularly close to me , I have no doubt that these redoubtable women took their place in the Viking shield wall and in the Celtic war chariots along with their male counterparts. Bonnie lassies one and all. Regards, Norman. https://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/...and-valkyries/ http://www.medievalhistories.com/war...e-scandinavia/ Attached Images Last edited by Norman McCormick; 20th October 2016 at 08:43 PM.