“[...] 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.” PoemReputationAethelflaed Book:Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it Source: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it