Alternatively, there"s the fierce Freydís Eiríksdóttir, who, when faced with indigenous attackers in the Saga of Erik the Red, "let down her sark and struck her breast with a naked sword". Such a sight ensured the attackers "rushed off to their boats and fled away". Albeit more tenuously, the Eddas include the Valkyrie, an elite force of women soldiers who select which of the Viking war-dead deserve to join them in Valhalla. Recently brought to life in the 2017 Marvel film Thor: Ragnarok, their presence perhaps presupposes the involvement of women in warfare.