Warrior Women - Name hunt

[dogscoff]

Creating a ship name list for my new shipset, but so far I have a depressingly short list.

I need the names of famous warrior women, or at the very least, physically tough female charaters from history, mythology and fiction.

So far, all I've come up with is
Joan of Arc
Bodicea
Sarah Connor
Ripley

Pathetic huh? I'm sure you lot can come up with more than this...

And no, I will NOT be putting Mrs Thatcher on the list. I'm not sure she qualifies as human, let alone female...

[Growltigga]

dogscoff, greek and roman mythology is full of strapping warrior/tough women

hecate
diana
athena
atalanta
clytemenestra
kylie
that bird who led the amazons

thorw in a bit of norse mythology and you have more strapping 'jolly hockey sticks' types than you could mudwrestle

[dogscoff]

Thanks 'tig.

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hecate
diana
athena
atalanta

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Good, I'll add these.

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clytemenestra

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This one sounds like a yeast infection, but I'll add her as well.

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kylie

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You're kidding, right? Kylie? I should be so lucky...

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that bird who led the amazons

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Good plan... I'll put in a google search for amazon, ignore the thousands of bookshop references, and see if I get any leads from there.

Keep 'em coming ppl.

[dogscoff]

PtF, yeah, it's for the valkyries. I'm hoping to put the graphics together for them tonight for inclusion in the proportion game, and then maybe upload a full shipset (using a modified viking AI) to my website over the weekend.

I've already done the speech file- great fun: "Is that the biggest weapon you have? I've seen bigger."

Thanks for the Nordic name site - where did you find _that_? I'll look at that more carefully tonight, and maybe knock out another name list.

Now I've started though, (and now I've opened a thread on the subject) I'd still like a list of female warriors. (excluding amazons, who now have their own list).

So come on, think of your favourite films / books and give me the name of the any female gun/ sword waving heroine types.

Here's some starters:
Joan of Arc
Bodicea
Sarah Connor (terminator + sequel)
Ellen Ripley (Alien + sequels)
Vasquez (Aliens - actually, I could do a whole Aliens list, couldn't I?)
Xena
Buffy
That woman from "Conan the Barbarian" (anyone know the name?)
Tasha Yarr (St:TNG)
The girl from Akira
Lursa (Klingon woman from ST) (Spelling?)
Bettor (ditto)

[Rollo]

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
That woman from "Conan the Barbarian" (anyone know the name?)

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Valeria

Looking forward to the speech file, btw .

Rollo

[PsychoTechFreak]

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Originally posted by dogscoff:

I've already done the speech file- great fun: "Is that the biggest weapon you have? I've seen bigger."

Thanks for the Nordic name site - where did you find _that_? I'll look at that more carefully tonight, and maybe knock out another name list.

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This could be another interesting page for your speech file:

Viking English

My search file for this, I guess there is a bunch of nice things under it:

Google Up Viking Women Names

Edit: Some goodies out of Viking English-

jabber (vb) To chatter. Scan. Formerly jaber and jable, weakened forms of gabber and gabble. Based on gab- as seen in the Ice gabba (to mock). See also gabble, above.

gabble (vb) To prattle. Scan => ME gabben (to lie, delude). Ice gabba (to mock) and gabb (mockery). Compare with Irish Gaelic cab, gob (the mouth). Allied to SE gobble and gape.

hale (adj) As in 'hale and hearty' (in good condition, healthy). Scan => ME heil. Ice heill, Dan heel, Swe hel.
hail (vb) To greet, to call out to. Scan => ME heilen. A verb coined from the Ice heill (see hail, above). Swe helse, Dan hilse (to greet). Associated with the Anglo-Saxon wes hál (realised in modern orthography as wassail), a greeting which literally means 'be whole'.

[ 28 March 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

[Gryphin]

My sweet heart proffered this one:
WAR GODDESS:

The Morrígan and her
Germano-Celtic Counterparts
A dissertation by Angelique Gulermovich Epstein


Here and there around us are many bloody spoils; horrible are the huge entrails the Morrígan washes.
More here:
http://members.loop.com/~musofire/diss/

[wr8th]

A couple more:

Arwen
Galadriel
Eowyn

[dogscoff]

Top marks Gryph, that looks like an interesting read, and I'm sure I can glean some good names from it. Might have to print it off though.

I had no idea how educational this would turn out to be. I'm really enjoying this=-)

[Val]

Sheeba
Cleopatra
Diana
Helena
Nefertiti
Isis
Irene (First female ruler of Athens)
Black Widow (of B-Tech fame)
Cassiopeia
Leia (Star Wars)
Isabella
Sojurner Truth (Abolisionist)
Theodora (Byzantine Emporess)
Yim Wing Chung (founder of her own martial art)
Catherine the Great (Russia)
Belle Star (Outlaw)
Lyta Alexander (B5 psyker)
Susan Ivanova (B5 commander)
Delenn (B5 Diplomat, Grey Council)
Tanya Harding (Throws a mean punch )
Nancy Drew (well, not much of a warrior, but she solved crime)