Legendary Norsemen

In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers () were Scandinavian warriors who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English adjective berserk . Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources.

thumb|"Brunnhild" (1897) by Gaston Bussière

thumb|350px|right|Hervor dying after the Hlǫðskviða by [[Peter Nicolai Arbo]]

thumb|upright|Lagertha as imagined in a lithography by Morris Meredith Williams in 1913 Lagertha, according to legend, was a Viking ruler and shield-maiden from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous Viking Ragnar Lodbrok. Her tale was recorded by the chronicler Saxo in the 12th century. According to the historian Judith Jesch, Saxo's tales about warrior women are largely fictional; other historians wrote that they may have a basis in tales about the Norse deity Thorgerd.

Viking Queen

Germanic mythological blacksmith

thumb|Woodcut by Edward Burne-Jones, for [[William Morris' work, Sigurd the Volsung. (London: Kelmscott Press, 1898).]] thumb|Kriemhild discovers Siegfried's corpse. Painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1817. thumb|Kriemhild accuses Hagen of murdering Siegfried. Painting by Emil Lauffer, 1879 right|thumb|Kriemhild and Gunther, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1807 thumb|Kriemhild's Death, Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth, 1911 Gudrun ( ; ) or Kriemhild ( ; ) is the wife of Sigurd/Siegfried and a major figure in Germanic heroic legend and literature. She is believed to have her origins in Ildico, last wife of

mythological character, Burgundian warrior in tales about the Burgundian kingdom at Worms

early Faroese viking

Norse mythical character

Legendary Viking age queen consort

200px|thumb|right|Queen Wealtheow as the hostess of the banquet Wealhtheow (also rendered Wealhþēow or Wealthow; ) is a queen of the Danes in the Old English poem Beowulf, first introduced in line 612. thumb|Queen Wealhtheaow Pledges Beowulf (George T. Tobin, 1909)

thumb|Svanhildr as illustrated by Jenny Nyström in Fredrik Sander's 1893 Swedish edition of the Poetic Edda.

legendary Norse princess

legendary Scanian prince

thumb|Hildebrand battles King Gjúki|Gibica in [[Rosengarten zu Worms]] thumb|Hildebrand warns the Burgundians Hildebrand is a character from Germanic heroic legend. Hildebrand is the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is Hiltibrant and in Old Norse Hildibrandr. The word hild means "battle" and brand means "sword". The name itself is very likely of Lombardic origin.

thumb|300px|Hlöd has found his dead sister Hervor after the battle with the [[Goths at Myrkviðr. A painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo]] Hlöd or Hlod was the illegitimate son of Heidrek, the king of the Geats, in Norse mythology.

Blotstulka, or Blot-Tulca, (11th century) is a name known in legend for an alleged Swedish medieval queen consort, spouse of a King "Blot-Sweyn" of Sweden who may have reigned in the 1080s. The name can be seen as the equivalent to that of her spouse, with the meaning: "The Woman Sacrificer" or "The Maiden Sacrificer"; as her spouse's name was "Sweyn the Sacrificer", which can also be translated as "The Man Who Performs the Sacrifices".

Icelandic explorer

In Norse mythology, Grimhild or Grímhildr ("masked battle") was a beautiful but evil sorceress who was married to king Gjúki of Burgundy in the Völsunga saga where she is the mother of three sons, Gunnar, Hǫgni and Guthormr, and a daughter, Gudrun. Other, similar characters of that name also appear in Illuga saga Gríðarfóstr and in Gríms saga loðinkinna.

Wiglaf (Proto-Norse: *Wīgalaibaz, meaning "battle remainder"; ) is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is the son of Weohstan, a Swede of the Wægmunding clan who had entered the service of Beowulf, king of the Geats. Wiglaf is called Scylfing as a metonym for Swede, as the Scylfings were the ruling Swedish clan. While in the service of the Scylfing Onela, king of the Swedes, Weohstan killed the rebel prince Eanmund and took his sword as a trophy; Wiglaf later inherited it. Weohstan belonged to the clan of the Wægmundings, the same clan Beowulf's father Ecgþeow belonged to; so

Swedish legendary duo

Eyfura was a princess in Norse mythology, who married Arngrim and had twelve sons. In all accounts, her twelve sons would be slain by the Swedish champion Hjalmar and his friend Orvar-Odd.

thumb|Albin Egger-Lienz: Hulda. Oil on canvas, 1903.

Rusla, also known as the "Red Woman" from Middle Irish Ingean Ruagh, was a legendary Norwegian shield-maiden mentioned in the Gesta Danorum or "History of the Danes" of Saxo Grammaticus and in the Irish annals. According to Saxo, Rusla was the daughter of a fifth or sixth century king of Telemark called Rieg, and sister of Tesandus (Thrond), who was dispossessed of his throne by a Danish king named Omund. Rusla formed a pirate fleet to attack all Danish ships as revenge for the affront to her brother. Rusla was always accompanied by another woman, Stikla, who was her deputy in all raids. Stikl

German mythological hero

Norwegian pirate and one of the first known female pirates

legends in Norse mythology