Wargaming Warrior Women: Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd

[shandy]

Hi!

The latest installment of the series covers Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, a Welsh noblewoman who led her men in a guerrilla campaign against the Normans in the early 12th century. Wouldn't she make a splendid Warlord (or should I say Warlady?) for a Welsh warband for SAGA?
Visit https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/a-welsh-warrior-woman/ for more details!

Cheers
Shandy

[cram]

Good idea! Maybe Gripping Beast or Footsore Miniatures will read this, like it and sculpt her.

[area23]

Great! I had no idea. We're used to believe that maid Marion was as feminist as it would get.
Some months ago I read that Viking shieldmaiden were also far more common than always presumed.

[shandy]

Thanks for the kind feedback! I'll be covering female Vikings soon… there are new figures coming out!

[Paul]

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Some months ago I read that Viking shieldmaiden were also far more common than always presumed.

There´s a few..some more famous than the rest....like Freydís Eiríksdóttir
http://interestingpretties.blogspot.de/2012/10/freydis-eiriksdottir-viking-warrior.html

Is that really a female named "Walpurgis" fighting a priest in the Tower fecthbuch Illustration or an literal pictorial  Interpretation of the nicknames given to the common fencing stances and a reference to the Person who wrote it ? A lot of the other "students"  could be interpreted as being female looking.
Walpurga from  Vidilpoge(in new high german = 'fiddle-bow') a defence stance and the Priester-Hut (priest defense position)
The teacher/Trainer (who virtually always looses) is referred to as a Sacerdos (priest)