Warrior Women - Name hunt

[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.

[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