A Complete Mystery

8 years ago #9542819          

I'm training to be a skjoldmøy!

8 years ago #9568915          

@BlueBlod2002 That sounds like an awesome job, I do not think I have ever met a living shieldmaiden.

3 years ago #9872382          

@BlueBlod2002 I hope it went well for you after all these years

8 years ago #9542655          

The woman in the second panel looks so done with the historians omg

7 years ago #9769016          

Ever read the news about "Experts find Arabic script invoking ‘Allah’ on 10th century Norse clothing" probably vikings shopping place in the old days was middle east..

7 years ago #9767112          

Historians, please…

8 years ago #9561915          

Mistake spotted:

Although it might be right that popular record about Vikings depiction came from an Arab traveler, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who came to Varangians viking settlement in Volga.

I haven't found any record about shieldmaiden died in the battle against Arab.

Yet, there's record about it, (involving a maiden died in battle) in the siege of Dorostolon (971).

It's battle when Byzantine, launched a siege against Kievan Rus who employed the Varangians as mercenary, and of which recorded by a Byzantine historian.

" There are few historic attestations that Viking Age women took part in warfare, but the Byzantine historian John Skylitzes records that women fought in battle when Sviatoslav I of Kiev attacked the Byzantines in Bulgaria in 971."

"When the Varangians (not to be confused with the Byzantine Varangian Guard) had suffered a devastating defeat in the Siege of Dorostolon, the victors were stunned at discovering armed women among the fallen warriors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shieldmaiden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27
[Harrison, D. & Svensson, K. (2007). Vikingaliv. Fälth & Hässler, Värnamo. ISBN 978-91-27-35725-9. p. 71]

8 years ago #9561920          

'@Zanar'_Naryon' #9560131'
No it's not Arab rather -- in the specific part of which the maiden died in battle -- Byzantine Roman instead.

It's recorded by Byzantine Rome historian after they were victorious in Dorostolon (Today Silistra, Bulgaria) 971.

The batle was when Byzantine Emperor, John I launched a siege to finish the remaining army who fleed to the fortress of Dorostolon after their defeat in Battle of Arcadiopolis (Nowadays, Lüleburgaz, Turkey) in March, 971.

It was part of the Byzantine-Rus war, where at first Byzantine encouraged the Varangians (who are often called as Rus' people, mind you also, due lacking sources there's confusion of whether Rus mentioned was Slavs or Varangians) to attack Bulgaria. But then resulted as their own defeat, then The Rus turned against their allies, Byzantine, and sided with Bulgaria instead.

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In another Note though, there's a record mentioned that Varangian were engaging in battle against Khazarian, which also adopt Islamism aside other religions at the time (Nowadays they're Azerbaijani, but I won't call them Arab since they're not originated from the Peninsula).

8 years ago #9560131          

The rune stone and grave I can dismiss as Mythology and status symbols, but the Arabs? Really?

8 years ago #9550946          

Links to where we can see some of this stuff? I'd love to see the image of the woman warrior entering Valhalla.

8 years ago #9548715          

I am given to understand that part of it was the Vikings beat up the ancestors of the cultures of many of the researchers- in which, of course, the English etc. of *course* portrayed the Vikings as these ultra-masculine types because how else could they have done so well? ... and that's engrained in what's taught them and they stick with it to the point of absurdity.

8 years ago #9547973          

This made me think of the new Norwegian humor-series, Vikingane.
https://youtu.be/y1JEHSRs_hg?t=27s

From 0.28 in the trailer, the vikings have returned from a viking raid. The ones who returned from the raid, tell the other viking, he should be proud of his wife (Frøya), who went all in the sack, and has raped lots of men.

8 years ago #9545071          

Goofballs. It's obvious.