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A Complete Mystery 27 11, 9:12am

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]








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