\[ **BT: [[English language]] | [[literature#sagas]]** ] --- # maiden king Rudolf Simek mentions ‘warlike princesses or maiden kings’.[^1] [[The ‘maiden king’ is a personality found in Middle Icelandic sagas—the proud maiden ruling over her kingdom.]][^2] [^1]: Rudolf Simek, *[[Simek, Dictionary of Northern Mythology, 1993|Dictionary of Northern Mythology]]*, (D.S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 4, 12. Internet Archive, [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnort0000sime](https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnort0000sime). [^2]: Erik Wahlgreen, ‘[[Wahlgreen, ‘The Maiden King in Iceland’, 1938|The Maiden King in Iceland]]’, Doctor of Philosophy (University of Chicago, 1938), p. 1. University of Chicago Library, [https://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0107.pdf](https://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2007/pres2007-0107.pdf).