Were shieldmaidens real?They found and analysed a grave relatively recently and it appeared to be that of a female military commander, which included a tacticool game.But did the game and weapons imply a girlboss commander or just a companion of a male commander?
If vikings were using shieldmaidens the Christians would've written about such abhorrent pagan behaviour.
Yes there were. The northern germanic peoples had a sort of tradition of allowing their women to accompany them on their campaigns at times. Now, many armies did this unofficially as camp followers but the germanic women had a somewhat elevated status as they had formations fow women who would hold the final last ditch reserve force. Mainly their job was to take care of logistics and cook and whatever.Also, as oftentimes with tribal peoples the women would keep the morale in check by basically shaming any man who thought of retreating. Imagine running away in front of all the womn in your tribe its unthinkable aura loss. Arabs did this too for example it halted a collapse in their lines at yarmoukHowever they did not fightin the front lines that is woke nonsense.
>>18589158I mean likely not all did but some outliers likely did fight no?
