Legendary
October 21
Perhaps someone misunderstood the letters XI MM VV
(eleven virgin martyrs) as eleven thousand virgins and
then rationalized his misunderstanding by borrowing some
Niebelungen traits and concocting a wild tale of a
Christian British princess who did not want to marry a
pagan prince, proposed extravagant conditions all of
which were dutifully met, and was finally killed by the
Huns, who were thereupon (not a moment too late) chased
off by angels.
Rich robes, crown, pennant in her right hand, and in her
left a scepter or spear elaborately decorated with
flowers and a pennant; see Christian Images (1982), 152.