An early example of an Evil Overlord?

It has occurred to me while reading Egil's Saga, that Queen Gunnhild would make a fantastic Evil Overlord. If she had James Bond in her clutches she wouldn't make any of the classic mistakes that allow him to escape every time.
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Boring Dreamlife

Why have I not been having any exciting 'feature-film' style dreams recently? When I dream of doing a magazine quiz about television while drinking coffee in Starbucks, I might as well be awake!

I have been having way too many anxiety dreams in the past few months, and last night's dream about buying bootleg boardgames at a market was really just an atypical anxiety dream. Atypical because although it had the worries (about money and the suitability of presents this time), I wasn't repeatedly failing at something very important while everyone else acted as if there was no problem at all.