Is it like a warress or a wartress? What is it?
2006-12-09 05:14:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Valkyrie - from Norse Mythology
2006-12-09 05:24:29 · answer #1 · answered by missi8301 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Female Warrior
2016-12-18 06:05:21 · answer #2 · answered by tabbitha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think that Female Warrior would be a correct title, like Male Warrior is also passable. Warrior. I do not know if I would call it a Warress.
2006-12-09 05:20:32 · answer #3 · answered by The Pope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do distinguish "hunter" from "huntress," so maybe you're on to something? But I think since Xena was known as the "warrior princess," there really was never a name for women warriors, a very rare breed indeed. (I'm not saying she's a historical figure, I'm saying that if there was such a word, the writers would've used that instead of warrior princess.) Though if you look up "warrioress" online people seem to have embraced that. I think "Amazon" is almost a generic term now and would apply well.
Also, Valkyries weren't women warriors, they were supernatural beings, more like angels.
2006-12-09 05:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Warrior comes from Old French guerreor, so I think in theory the feminine should be Warriess. I don't know if anyone would actually understand what you mean, however, if you said that.
2006-12-09 10:57:15 · answer #5 · answered by KdS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The usual expression is "amazon", which is fairly neutral, also the more depreciating term "virago" which is Latin and means "I act the man" and implies wanton violence and depravity.
In Germanic times there was the term "shield maid(en)" for a female warrior, but that seems to have gone out of fashion. ;-)
Since nowadays nobody is bothered a lot about gender specific expressions any more a sentence like "She was a warrior." seems perfectly fine to me. After all, you don't look around for a special female form of "dentist" either.
2006-12-09 07:16:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amazon
2006-12-09 05:21:01 · answer #7 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its called Amazon. In history they will cut their right breast in order to use the arrow precisely without any disturbances from the breast.
Hope this helps. Hola!
2006-12-09 14:24:47 · answer #8 · answered by Klyde L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ME! Suzanne of Bear Creek Woods!! Slayer of lazy, English husbands who can't pull their stodgy English head out of their arses!!!
...sorry, got carried away.
2006-12-09 05:21:24 · answer #9 · answered by Suzanne S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd call her for a date....
2006-12-09 05:16:00 · answer #10 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋