Feminine nouns are words for women, girls and female animals.

The female equivalent of “master”, and thus, “a woman having control or authority” – in particular one who employs servants or attendants.

A virago is a woman who demonstrates exemplary and heroic qualities. There are recorded instances of viragos (such as Joan of Arc) fighting battles, wearing men’s clothing, or receiving the tonsure.

Most scholars share Jesch’s view that the “Viking ethos” means there would have been no female warriors. However, women did share equal rights in many aspects of society. They could own land, initiate divorce proceedings, serve as clergy and run a business. However, their sphere of influence was domestic.

In rhetoric, eunoia (Ancient Greek: εὔνοιᾰ, romanized: eúnoia, lit. ‘well mind; beautiful thinking’) is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between themselves and their audience, a condition of receptivity.

It is the female equivalent for knighthood, which is traditionally granted to males. Since there is no female equivalent to a Knight Bachelor, women are always appointed to an order of chivalry.

As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the suo jure female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist.

The youngest person to receive a knighthood or damehood in modern times was the sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur, who was 28 when she was honoured. The youngest knight in history was Prince George, the future George IV, who was aged three when he was made a knight of the garter in 1765.

Legendary female samurai Tomoe Gozen first appeared in the Japanese military epic “The Tale of the Heike,” a series of narratives about the lives and battles of those who fought in the Genpei War of the 12th century, with stories handed down orally for generations until they were first recorded in the 14th century.

The Most Legendary Female Viking Warriors That Ever Lived

• Lagertha. Thanks to Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum, we know of a legendary female Viking known as either Lagertha or Ladgerda.
• Shieldmaiden.
• Freydis Eiríksdóttir.

Chinese women warriors were very active during the eighteen-year Tai Ping Tian Guo Movement (1850-1868), China’s largest and longest peasant uprising. Thousands of women officers and soldiers, organized in gender-segregated battalions, engaged in a wide range of military activities, including combat.

Penthesilea. Penthesilea, in Greek mythology, a queen of the Amazons, well respected for her bravery, her skill in weapons, and her wisdom.

Theseus

Queen Hippolyta explains to Diana that Zeus is the leader of the ancient Olympian Gods, and that he created the Amazons to protect and help humankind. Over time, his son Ares revolted, corrupted men and killed most of the Olympian Gods in battle.

It’s the one thing everyone seems to think they know about Amazons: that the name has something to do with only having one breast so they could easily fire an arrow or hurl a spear.

When this happened it was explained that the Amazons were created by the goddess Artemis from the souls of women who had died at the hands of men, and were given new and stronger bodies, made from clay transformed into flesh and blood.

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Amazons were long considered a myth. These discoveries show warrior women were real. These were the fierce warrior women of Ancient Greek lore who supposedly sparred with Hercules, lived in lesbian matriarchies and hacked off their breasts so they could better fire their arrows.

Hercules is depicted as a brutish ‘hero,’ who represented masculine violence, and one of his 12 labors is deconstructed as a treacherous act to enslave the Amazons under Queen Hippolyte.

Diana, after her death, was granted divinity as the Goddess of Truth by her gods for such faithful devotion. During her brief time as a god of Olympus, Diana was replaced in the role of Wonder Woman by her mother, Queen Hippolyta.

Ares

In the Teen Titans East one-shot, Cyborg gathered together a new team of Titans. During a training exercise, the group was attacked by Trigon, and Cyborg was blasted by a giant energy beam. He was last seen in a crater, with only his head and torso remaining.

Orion

Superman and Lois Lane are no stranger to having kids, and in John Byrne’s Superman & Batman: Generations, they have two. One of their two children, Joel William Kent, was exposed to Gold Kryptonite in the womb, leaving him born without powers.

Strife even reveals Diana’s own true parentage to her, that Hippolyta conceived Diana when she slept with Zeus after a long battle, making Diana one of Zeus’ many illegitimate offspring, like Zola’s baby.