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]

Excellent! Just found a Xena: Warrior Princess site with a listing of over 80 amazons from greek mythology. That wil do nicely. I've compiled it into a txt file and I could just use that for my new race. You can keep posting here though, perhaps we'll have enough for a second names list.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Hi dogscoff, is it for the valkyries ?

Here you go:
Medieval Names Archive

Edit: I am looking forward to ram your Valkyries next week

[ 28 March 2002: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

[Gryphin]

GrowlTigga, what about a list of Englands Queens and female Prime Ministeres? Oh, and then there was Goulda Mier.