ABSTRACT
THERE were, besides, many other warlike females, not only not-able ones of Gothic strain but numerous others also, famous and steadfast women of different nations. Turning first towards the North, we there meet, besides those mentioned above, Orithyia, Antiope, and Thalestris 2 or Minuthyia in the first book of the Gothic Histories, Ch. 32, all carefully named by my beloved brother, together with references to the Amazons and their exploits. 3 Then there are those who were involved in civil wars (and very bitter wars they were), as may be seen above in Ch. 8 of this book: such women as Hetha, Vebiorg, Lathgertha, Alvild, Rusila, Sela, and Stikla. 4 Reference to these and similar hostilities must be made later, as the need arises. Albert Krantz, too, dean of Hamburg, the most accurate writer of any nation, makes mention of many remarkable girls among the Vandals, such as Libussa, Valisca, and Visna, who fought vigorously both in defence of their chastity and in their yearning for fame and honour. 5 Just as Penthesilea and Artemisia, those scarcely paralleled women, battled against the Greeks at Troy, and Camilla among the Romans, 6 so did that heroine Libussa among the Bohemians and Vandals. Yet in the end they were mainly destroyed by wiles rather than conquered in war, especially Valisca among the Bohemians, after she, with her maidens, had led them energetically for seven years. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315598758/240f65d0-e362-4830-b834-b70852cccccf/content/pg278_1.tif"/>
Orithyia Antiope Thalestris Minuthyia
Hetha Vebiorg Lathgertha Alvild Rusila Sela Stikla
Libussa Valisca Visna
Camilla
