She/he was a shieldmaiden or warrior, who would rather spend her/his days fighting and doing male sports instead of female activities.

I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.

Frotho I dressed as a shieldmaiden in one of his eastern campaigns.

Serving the drink was characteristic of the shieldmaiden in the stories about Valhalla.

While a shieldmaiden does not fill a woman's typical role, her strength of character is found in even the more domestic women in these stories.

She is a noblewoman of Rohan who is described as a shieldmaiden.

Hring made a shieldmaiden the ruler of Denmark (cf.

There Sigurðr declared his love for the shieldmaiden after spotting her in her tower.

Heidrek was the son of king Höfund and his wife Hervor, a shieldmaiden.

The shieldmaiden Vebiorg took on the Swedish army.

I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying.

Hervor's name as a shieldmaiden.

Similar to her male counterparts, the shieldmaiden prefers to do things straightforwardly, without the deception considered stereotypically feminine in much of medieval literature.

But am I not of the House of Eorl, a shieldmaiden and not a dry-nurse?

And would you have your proud folk say of you: There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North!

Mother Svea is normally depicted as a powerful female warrior, valkyrie or shieldmaiden, frequently holding a shield and standing beside a lion.

Sigurd met Brynhildr, a "shieldmaiden," after killing Fafnir.

She describes it as a storyline where "the mother, the young girl and the shieldmaiden are all given equal weight and worth...."

In order to meet Signy, Hagbard dressed up as a woman and claimed to be his brother Haki's shieldmaiden.

The poem is about the shieldmaiden Hervor and her visiting her father Angantyr's ghost at his barrow.

Heidrek and Hergerd had a daughter who was named Hervor, the shieldmaiden, after her grandmother who had just died.

Guðrún is no shieldmaiden, and Brynhildr mocks her for this, saying, "Only ask what is best for you to know."

Veborg, Scandinavian shieldmaiden (approximate date)

Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha, Ragnar's wife; a shieldmaiden.

Hrólfr would court and finally win the Swedish king Erik's daughter Þornbjörg, who was a violent and proud shieldmaiden.