Queen Boadicea Rallying Her Army

I uploaded a really fine drawing of Queen Boadicea rallying her army of Icenis and allies against the occupying Roman forces.  I like this render of her as it portrays her as a queen and war leader, and not some under dressed armed bimbo.  You can see from the picture that her arm respected her, but notice a couple of doubters.  I have placed the picture near the top of my art gallery.  Hope that you enjoy it and please post your comments here if you want to say something.

If you want to see a good historical movie about her, you may rent it from Netflix as "Warrior Queen".  It's produced by Masterpiece Theater of the BBS and it's a high-quality, mostly historically accurate portrayal of her mistreatment by the Romans and her bloody uprising and defeat.

She is greatly admired by the modern Britons as they have erected a bronze statue of her near London's Westminister Bridge.  It portrays her brandishing a spear in a two-horse chariot with her two daughters at her side.

"Death Of Camilla" painting

I have uploaded a classic painting, "Death Of Camilla", by Maikar Forlag (1927), housed in the Liebig Museum in Frankfort, Germany.  The scene is the Queen Of the Volscians, allies with the Latins against the invading Trojans, from the Aeneid.  She lies dying from a dart in the chest and is attended by her warriors.  Previously, she slew many Trojans with her battleaxe before being ambushed by Aruns, a priest she coveted for his splendid armour. I have placed the painting in my Art Gallery.

Pict Female Warrior Fights Roman Officer

I just uploaded a You Tube clip from the movie "Centurion" that depicts a duel between a Pict female warrior, fighting with a spear, against a captured Roman officer with a sword and armour.  I placed in my Video Library under "Centurion". Hope you like it as female Pict warrior videos are a rarity.

"Carita", star of "The Viking Queen" movie

For my first upload of the New Year, I've chosen a rare photo of Carita Jarniven, the Finnish actress, who played the star, "Carita", in "The Viking Queen".  You will find this publicity photo in the Art Gallery.  I also have the trailer to this movie in my Video Library.  Carita looked good in armour and handled her sword well in fights with the Roman Army. 

She led her Iceni tribe in a hopeless fight but chose suicide over capture.  "The Viking Queen" doesn't have any Vikings, but lots of heroic Iceni warriors and druids.  Her sisters were also warriors who died fighting bravely.  The movie is not available from Netflix, but you can purchase it from Amazon.com.  It's not an accurate movie but worth watching if you like women warriors.

Unknown VidClip Identified

My thanks to ThroneOfFire who kindly identified the vidclip that I last posted. It's called the "La Leggenda di Enea" or the "Last Glory Of Troy" and also known as "The Avenger". Please click on this post's title to jump to the Internet Movie Database to learn more about this movie.

The movie is a classic Steve Reeves, Italian-made sword-and-sandle movie about the invasion of Etruscan Italy by the Trojan refugees led by Aeneas. One of the allies of Turnus, king of Etrusca, is the warrior-queen Camilla, who brought a small army of women to battle the invaders. The vidclip I found shows either the death of Camilla herself, although "The Illiad" shows her dying by a javelin, or one of her warrior women.

I'm going to try to obtain a DVD of this movie and rip some women-warrior battlscenes from it and upload them into my You Tube account. If any of you visitors has this DVD and would like to do the same, you'll have my thanks.