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sige-cwēn, f.n: a victorious queen. (SIH-yeh-KWAIN)

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Penthesilia, queen of the Amazons, in an anonymous French translation of Boccaccio’s De claris mulieribus. France (Rouen), c. 1440. British Library, Royal 16 G V, f. 35v. [bl.uk]

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