Quote: (12-02-2017 02:13 PM)YoungBlade Wrote:
Gonna correct some common misconceptions about shield maidens. Shield maidens never fought.
Jumping into this thread late but there was a story recently where they found a burial of a woman all decked out as a warrior.
http://www.history.com/news/dna-proves-v...l-warriors
This doesn't necessarily prove that woman warriors who actually got into the fray were common, but there were probably at least some outliers. Maybe they were lesbians. Who knows?