In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

Category: Old Testament female saints

Other female deities such as the valkyries, the norns, and the dísir are associated with a Germanic concept of fate ( Old Norse Ørlög, Old English Wyrd ), and celebrations were held in their honor, such as the Dísablót and Disting.

The Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, preserved in two manuscripts from the 11th century, contains a female figure referred to as Seo hell who engages in flyting with Satan and tells him to leave her dwelling ( Old English ut of mynre onwununge ).

* 1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England, United Kingdom.

The Norns ( Old Norse: norn, plural: nornir ) in Norse mythology are female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men, a kind of dísir comparable to the Fates in Greek mythology.

* Description of the problem of Roman Catholic and Old Catholic reunion with respect to the female priesthood

While the name Sigyn is found as a female personal name in Old Norse sources ( Old Norse sigr meaning " victory " and vina meaning " girl-friend "), and though in surviving sources she is largely restricted to a single role, she appears in the 9th century Haustlöng from pagan times, written by the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

On the other hand, Carla Hesse, in The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern ( 2001 ), argues that " female participation in the public cultural life of the Old Regime was ... relatively marginal ".

It also may have been derived from the Old Norse word bikkja for " female dog.

Drangey represents the cow and Kerling ( supposedly the female giant, the name means " Old Hag ") is to the south of it.

The word dairy harkens back to Middle English dayerie, deyerie, from deye ( female servant or dairymaid ) and further back to Old English dæge ( kneader of bread ).

Category: Old Testament female saints

In Norse mythology, a valkyrie ( from Old Norse valkyrja " chooser of the slain ") is one of a host of female figures who decide who dies and lives in battle.

Two Old English charms mention figures that are theorized as representing an Anglo-Saxon notion of valkyries or valkyrie-like female beings ; Wið færstice, a charm to cure a sudden pain or stitch, and For a Swarm of Bees, a charm to keep honey bees from swarming.

One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations call upon female beings — Idisi — to bind and hamper an army.

Beverly or Beverley was a surname deriving from a place name meaning " beaver stream " in Old English which is now more commonly a female name.

Given the fluidity of Old Irish scribal practice, the name of the female mythological character Badb was occasionally spelled Bodb as well.

Old Irish cumal means " female slave ", and it is possible that a noble father was invented for Fionn to obscure an ignoble origin.

" In East Prussia, at the rye or wheat harvest, the reapers call out to the woman who binds the last sheaf, “ You are getting the Old Grandmother .... In Scotland, when the last corn was cut after Hallowmas, the female figure made out of it was sometimes called the Carlin or Carline, that is, the Old Woman.

In Norse mythology, Hroðr ( Old Norse " famed ") is a female jötunn ( giantess ) friendly to the Æsir and the wife of the jötunn Hymir.

The bikini is perhaps the most popular female beachwear around the globe, according to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard due to " the power of women, and not the power of fashion ".

From then on the French succession not only excluded females, but also rejected claims based on the female line of descent.

Written in French except for one postscript in English, the letters broke Charlotte's image as an angelic martyr to Christian and female duties that had been constructed by many biographers, beginning with Gaskell.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

Clitoral reconstructive surgery was developed by French surgeon Pierre Foldès and has been clinically proven to allow women who have undergone female genital mutilation with clitoridectomy, to achieve clitoral orgasms and reduce pain.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

In 1885, to get rid of habitual criminals and to increase the number of colonists, the French Parliament passed a law that anyone, male or female, who had more than three sentences for theft of more than three months each, would be sent to French Guiana as a " relégué.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

Medieval French had two words, chevaleresse and chevalière, which were used in two ways: one was for the wife of a knight, and this usage goes back to the 14th c. The other was possibly for a female knight.

The revised Constitution of Monaco, proclaimed in 1962, abolished capital punishment, provided for female suffrage, established a Supreme Court to guarantee fundamental liberties and made it difficult for a French national to transfer his or her residence there.

The British monarch is understood to not be the Duke with regards to mainland Normandy described herein, by virtue of the Treaty of Paris of 1259, the surrender of French possessions in 1801, and the belief that the rights of succession to that title are subject to Salic Law which excludes inheritance through female heirs.

Category: French female salon-holders

* Headcheese, a French Canadian female penguin, with whom Pokey has something of a love / hate relationship

It was instead the French Revolution, by destroying the old cultural and economic restraints of patronage and corporatism ( guilds ), that opened French society to female participation, particularly in the literary sphere.

When Ingres, the director of the French Académie de peinture, painted a highly colored vision of a Turkish bath ( illustration, right ), he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms ( who might all have been the same model.

Category: French female models

Category: French female singers

Published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Story of O is a tale of female submission about a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, O, who is blindfolded, chained, whipped, branded, pierced, made to wear a mask, and taught to be constantly available for oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse.

Chroniclers have noticed the right of Ælfwynn so precisely as to leave no doubt concerning her claim ; and this fact is of considerable value in showing that, contrary to the practice of other Germanic peoples, the sovereign authority amongst the Anglo-Saxons might descend to a female ; or, according to the Anglo-Saxon expression, which the French have adopted, " fall to the spindle side ".

Mortimer and Isabella began a passionate relationship from December 1325 onwards ; Isabella was taking a huge risk in doing so – female infidelity was a very serious offence in medieval Europe, as shown during the Tour de Nesle Affair – both Isabella's former French sisters-in-law had died by 1326 as a result of their imprisonment for exactly this offence.

It is best known in the form of late Romantic ballet or Ballet Blanc, which preoccupies itself with the female dancer to the exclusion of almost all else, focusing on pointe work, flowing, precise acrobatic movements, and often presenting the dancers in the conventional short white French tutu.

There will be a female protagonist, an investigative journalist who, thirty years after the conference, sets out to locate Édouard Daladier, the former French Council president.