Half of all Viking invaders were women.

[Lancecastor]

So much for that old saw.

 

[pensivepoet]

So much for that old saw.

That would explain the horns.
Portable dildos
Those voyages were long.

 

[Lancecastor]

Basically, a bunch of danish chix beat up the short goofs of the british isles.

 

[pensivepoet]

Well, you can imagine what happened next....

 

[Lancecastor]

Those plain viking grrrls are such sex maniacs!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

So much for that old saw.

The support trains of almost all invading armies of the past were women...



Slaves could not be trusted, but chattel could.

 

[jezzilee]

Why should the men have all the fun?

 

[Rachel_X]

That would explain the horns.
Portable dildos
Those voyages were long.

That's what look for in a dildo.
Pointy and attached to a helmet.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Basically, a bunch of danish chix beat up the short goofs of the british isles.

Awww fuckem King Alfred kicked them out eventually.

 

[pointless]

Awww fuckem King Alfred kicked them out eventually.

kind of a lateral move, isn't it? saxon dog.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

kind of a lateral move, isn't it? saxon dog.

Ha ha is that supposed to be an insult?.

 

[pointless]

nope. it's a geography joke. you can almost walk from denmark to old saxony.

 

[Lancecastor]

Drakaina Muse does a hot Viking thing, though she's French.

http://orig00.deviantart.net/454d/f/2009/353/7/6/76c38e139ee5f6ae7d8ec4e3818e521e.jpg

 

[oggbashan]

Drakaina Muse does a hot Viking thing, though she's French.

But the Normans ( = Northmen) became French. So she might be descended from the invading Vikings.

 

[malefica]

There is still a lot of debate over this in the historical/archaeological community actually.

http://www.tor.com/2015/06/08/viking-warrior-women-did-shieldmaidens-like-lagertha-really-exist/

Okay. Saxo says there were ‘communities’ of shieldmaidens. Apparently, he means more than one community. How many? Ten? Fifty? Five thousand? In his The Danish History, Books I-IX, he names Alfhild, Sela, and Rusila as shieldmaidens, and also names three she-captains, Wigibiorg, who fell on the field at Bravalla, Hetha, who became queen of Zealand, and Wisna, whose hand was cut off by Starcad at Bravalla. He also writes about Lathgertha and Stikla. So…eight women? They might make up one community, but ‘communities?’

Using the saga's as a source is also a bit dodgy.

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/women.htm

http://www.missedinhistory.com/blog/raining-on-your-parade-about-those-women-viking-warriors/

And there is plenty of evidence that, yes, there were female Norse warriors (and neither I nor the source am saying there were not). But, this paper essentially uses the presence of six female migrants and seven male as evidence that women and children most likely accompanied the Norse armies with the intent of settling the land once it was conquered, rather than migrating in a second wave once the fighting was over. It is, sadly, not at all about female Viking warriors, and not some Earth-shattering evidence that Norse armies were evenly split among women and men.

In other words, more women coming over early on rather than after, does not more women warriors make.

So they aren't saying that female Vikingr/warriors did not exist. Just that saying that over half of them were warriors is inclined towards wishful thinking!

 

[oggbashan]

Fighting women were not an invention of the Vikings.

Boudicca (Boadicea) and her daughters fighting against the Romans included fighting women in their war band.

But scythes on her chariot are historically unlikely, as were horned helmets for Vikings. Both are probably 19th Century inventions.

 

[Lancecastor]

Looks like there's a Viking village on the south west coast of Newfoundland.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/new-evidence-of-viking-settlement-found-in-newfoundland-1.2841561