While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review ...

There’s no doubt that Katheryn Winnick’s character on “Vikings” is definitely our favorite. Lagertha is a fierce warrior, a loyal mother and one of the most stylish shield maidens we’ve ever seen. Not ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Netflix‘s Vikings: Valhalla has no shortage of warrior women or ruthless queens, but Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson) is undoubtedly the show’s ferocious muse. She ...

Willow has announced her debut novel Black Shield Maiden, which will be published by Del Rey Books with co-writer Jess Hendel. READ MORE: Willow: “Humans have never been good at accepting that people ...

The multitalented daughter of Will and Jada Smith is following in her parent’s footsteps by becoming an author. Black Shield Maiden, the historical fantasy novel written by Willow Smith, will hit ...

Two young women—one an African warrior, one a Viking princess—become important allies in Black Shield Maiden, a new medieval fantasy that’s the first in a new series from musician turned debut author ...

This article argues that the medieval Scandinavian valkyrie and shield-maiden, overlapping categories of warrior, are best understood as a third gender, a hybrid of masculine and feminine attributes.

From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings Lore legend and history tell us of the Vikings warrior kings ...