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“[...] This reputation carried down the centuries immediately following, with this twelfth-century poem a testament to how she was perceived a quarter of a millennium after her death: Heroic Æthelflæd! Great in marital fame, A man in valour, though a woman in your name: Your warlike hosts by nature you obeyed, Conquered over both, though born by sex a maid.” — Janina Ramírez
[...] This reputation carried down the centuries immediately following, with this twelfth-century poem a testament to how she was perceived a quarter of a millennium after her death:
Heroic Æthelflæd! Great in marital fame,
A man in valour, though a woman in your name:
Your warlike hosts by nature you obeyed,
Conquered over both, though born by sex a maid.