Women in Warfare in the Iron Age

Tacitus says that sheis the only girl there, and he has her bringing all the women to watch the battes. Yet we think that some celts may have at them. If is this anly evidence for what some women involved in warfare in this time, in the iron age, we serainly tere's erany evidence. Increasingly, in the viking era, women in warfare. So itt but tacitus is our source for she is a bloke writing 50 years later back in rome, swea hate women. He really hates women. Absolutely hates womenbou he gives budica a brilliant speech. The idea of women having an active public

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