Unbelievable Female Viking Warriors

Lagertha

From Lagertha (also known as Ladgerda) only IX of Saxo Grammaticus' 'Gesta Danorum' (History of the Danes). It is mentioned in the section. Legendary hero Ragnar Lothbrok comes to Norway to avenge the death of his grandfather Siward and the humiliation of his wives and relatives by Swedish King Frø. As Saxo writes, she is greeted by some women posing as men to help her. Ragnar is so impressed by her (he especially dedicates his victory to her) that he decides to make her his wife, but Lagertha places a bear and a dog in front of her door to protect him from her. Ragnar kills both animals and marries her and has two daughters. When he remembers how he encouraged the bear and the dog to attack him, he divorces him and marries another woman named Thora. More is unknown about Lagertha.

Proud Sigrid

The proud Sigrid (circa 927 – 1014M, also known as the arrogant Sigrid, Sigríð Storråda or Sigrid Tostadottir) was a Swedish queen who refused to live by the rules of others. The Swedish king was married to Erik the Victorious (970 – 995 BC) and preferred to rule alone after his death. Harald Grenske of Norway and Vissald of Kievan Rus were courting him, but Sigrid admitted that he was only interested in him for his land and wealth. She invited them to a party where she and her men fell asleep from drinking too much. She closed the doors of the hall and burned them all to death to deter her prospective suitors. This interesting story may be nothing more than a legend, as its historicity is disputed.

The notorious Olaf Tryggvason (995-1000M), who converted the Norwegian people to Christianity through torture, also wanted to marry her but insisted that he become a Christian first. When she rejected him, she slapped Sigrid in public, and Sigrid promised her vengeance. It is said that she later married Sweyn Forkbeard for her connections and power and organized the Battle of Svolder (1000 M) in which Olaf was killed.

Brynhild

Brynhild (also known as Brynhildr, Brunhild, Brunhilde, or Brunhilda) is a Valkyrie who is made mortal after supporting the wrong hero in a contest led by Odin, and is imprisoned in a castle behind a shield wall and sleeps in a ring of fire until she is rescued by a champion. The hero Sigurd saves her and gives her a ring with the promise of marriage. But before all this she must go to the court of king Gjuki. Gjuki's wife, who is a sorceress, wants Sigurd to marry his daughter Gudrun and gives Sigurd a potion that will make him forget Brynhild. The mage also arranges for her to be rescued by his son Gunnar, who will later marry Brynhild, but Gunnar is unable to get past the ring of fire. Sigurd saves Brynhild by posing as Gunnar, and Brynhild thinks it was Gunnar who saved her and marries her. In an argument with Gudrun, Brynhild learns that it was Sigurd who saved her, but she later renounces him and swears revenge on all of them. He kills Sigurd's youngest son and later kills Sigurd in his sleep. As the pyre is lit, he jumps into it and dies with it. On his way to Hel with him, he is condemned by a giant for his actions, but Brynhild has no regrets. She says that now she and Sigurd will live the life they want together. According to the epics, in the middle of all this disaster, Ragnar Lothbrok has a daughter named Aslaug, one of his wives.

Skadi

Skadi is the daughter of the giant Thjazi, who was killed by the Asgardian god Thor. Since there was no other man to avenge his father, Skadi "took the helmet and all weapons of war and went to Asgard to avenge his father's death. (Lindow, 268). She was appeased by the Adgardians, though fully clad in the door, by an offer to choose any of them as her husband. But he had to do this only by looking at their feet. She chose one, hoping it would be the handsome Baldr, but she later learned that it was Njord, the god of the sea.

Njordi enjoyed his dark and damp cave by the water, while Skadi enjoyed the mountains where he hunted and skied. They try to reconcile by living in each other's house for nine days at a time, but Skadi can't stand it and leaves her for her own chalet. While Skadi is likely the mother of two important Norse gods, Freyr and Freyja, there is no mention of her involvement in their upbringing. After leaving Njord, she pursues her own interests, including a series of relationships with Odin.

Freydis Eiríksdóttir

Freydis Eiríksdóttir (970 – 1004 BC) was either an evil complicit murderer or a great female warrior, depending on which of the two stories about her is read. She is seen in the Epic of Red Erik (hero of epic) and Epic of Greenland (hero of evil). In The Epic of Plum the Red, Freydis, the daughter of Plum Red, accompanies a group in Vinland (Newfoundland, North America). When they are attacked by a group of natives, the men in the group retreat, leaving Freydis alone. He called out to them, “Why do you flee from such worthless creatures when, in my opinion, you are men brave enough to slaughter them like cattle? Let me get a gun, and I can fight better than any of you." she said. (Chapter 12). Alone and unwell (probably pregnant), Freydis takes a sword from her dead comrade, tears off his shirt, and beats his chest with a sword, defeating his fleeing enemies. She thus saves her group, she. In The Epic of Greenland, she accompanies her husband, men, and two brothers/partners to Vinland. She doesn't like her siblings and thinks they are quite arrogant, so she traps them and tells her husband that they abused and beat her. He says that if he does not avenge this insult, he will divorce her. Her husband and men kill his brothers in his group, but they do not touch the women, so Freydis kills all the women himself with an ax. This second story, written later than the first, is likely to be an attempt to discredit the powerful female figure in the ancient epic. Unlike the more overt mythological and legendary characters discussed above, Freydis has a better chance of reflecting a real historical persona, since there is consensus that these two epics that mention Vinland remember real people and events through an oral tradition, at least partially preserved.

Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir

Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (970/980) BC was among the first to explore North America, according to the Greenland Epic and the Red Plum Epic. Although originally from Iceland, he settled in Greenland with his father and Plum the Red. While in Greenland, his father died and he later married Leif Erikson's younger son, Thorstein. Along with others in her group, she accompanied her husband and brother-in-law on their North American tour where she discovered Vinland.

Thorstein died there and Gudrid returned to Greenland, where he married a Thorfinn Karlsefni. After some time, he returned to Vinland to settle permanently. His son, Snorri Thorfinnsson, was the first European child born in North America. Like Freydis, Gudrid is probably based on a real historical figure.

Deep Minded Unn

Deep-minded Unn (9th Century, also known as Deep-minded Aud and Unn- or Aud Ketilsdóttir.) was the daughter of Norwegian Ketil Flatnose, who fled to Scotland after the rise of Harald Fairhair (850-933M) in Norway. When his father and son Thorstein died, he realized his position in Scotland was uncertain and traveled first to the northern Orkneys and then to Iceland, where he discovered before settling down. She commanded a crew so loyal to her that no one entered into marriage contracts that could endanger Unn's property or power. Heading the Unn family, he literally lived in southern Iceland until his death. On the day her grandson Olaf Feilan married, she took a dignified seclusion in her bedroom, where she oversaw the preparations and service and then died in her sleep.