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History is like so much fan fiction. (Personally, I doubt viking society was patriarchal to the extent typically assumed - just machismo.)

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Viking warrior found in Sweden was indeed a woman, researchers confirm thelocal.se/20170908/confi

In the Nordic countries, women are frequently taller, even stronger, than men from other regions. Male-female height difference negligible.

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Even if vikings worshipped typical macho traits, it would still make sense that women were better integrated with that part of society.

(And all that said, a lot of those things seem overblown. History is so many interpretations on top of so many assumptions on scarce proof.)