Shield maidens and the heroic genre

[Lalaith]

Boudicca's chieftain husband died (I think slain in battle) so she took over leadership of the Iceni. She was savagely whipped, and her daughters raped, by Roman soldiers, and this is what sparked off the rebellion. But to return to the original question of men enamoured of warrior women, while she is greatly revered as a strong female symbol by the British, I don't think she is exactly a sex symbol...