Maiden Warriors And Other Sons Analysis

Carol J. Clover wrote her journal “Maiden Warriors and Other Sons” to analyze a list of female warriors in legends and myths that fit under a modern day transvestite category. Clover is a professor in film and language, yet she has written many books and journal articles based on Scandinavian folklore and myths. In her article Clover used out-dated psychology written by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology, even though his lessons are irrelevant today and proven wrong, saying that “The masculinity complex that many readers will be tempted to let it stand there, as a crystalline realization of a human universe.” While still using the occasional historic and anthropological representations. Clover starts the article with a paragraph written in Latin from the Saxo Grammaticus where the translation talks about how there were women that would deny their female roles and take up martial arts and armor instead of housework and sewing. Most of these women in her stories, started out very young that were orphaned by war and/ or swore revenge on their father’s deaths as his only …show more content…
A great example was the story with Hevör, without her attempt to get the her father’s sword as her own, he would have taken it to his grave never to be passed on to any other descendent. Even though he had lost to his daughter, Angantýr would not call her his son. Clover took the time to break down other versions of Hevör’s story to show how it depicts 5 generations handing down the family sword, but would not have been passed down if she did not break tradition and demand her right as an heir to take it for her son and future