Who is Aethelflaed?

                                
Who is the Lady of Mercia?
What made this writer want to breathe life into her?

//This is a new verse for me even as I have written Freya and Amora in the Asgard world so I understand the Viking world.
I am very well verse in Celtic history and mythology.  The Celtic culture is my passion.  I have written a book about an originally
character, Maire mac Domneill who is one of the characters on my page.  She is the daughter of the Northern Kings of Ireland
at the turn of the second century.  Her mother was daughter of a Viking Lord who was also King in DubhLinn Ireland.  Maire
learned both cultures.  
I see Aethelflaed as a strong Saxton woman who, also was a strong daughter of a realm in early England.  The Danes were actively
trying to gain land there, just as the Norse were gaining so many towns in Ireland.  Aethelflaed was not afraid to lead.  She wanted so
desparately to protect the people of Mercia from the savage hate and barbarian pillaging of the intruders.  She knew that all the people desired
was to live in peace.  Both Maire of Ireland and Aethelflaed of England understood the politics of their time.  Both of the their fathers desired to 
rid the land of the invaders, and at one point in both stories there was mercy given and the people tried to live side by side in peace.  
In my writing here, I hope to include stories that explain the hardships of the people and their culture and beliefs....Also I would like to do some
research in the English story to learn how the Danes fare ultimately in their ambition to settle in this new land.

I would welcome especially writers who are interested in telling this tale and sharing what they have discovered.  I am open to crossovers...other 
characters who might lend a light on some of this story.