ANOTHER NARRATIVE FAILS: Raining On Your Parade About Those Women Viking Warriors. “There’s all kinds of other research that really is about gender in Norse society and about women fighters in armies. And there is plenty of evidence that, yes, there were female Norse warriors (and neither I nor the source am saying there were not). But, this paper essentially uses the presence of six female migrants and seven male as evidence that women and children most likely accompanied the Norse armies with the intent of settling the land once it was conquered, rather than migrating in a second wave once the fighting was over. It is, sadly, not at all about female Viking warriors, and not some Earth-shattering evidence that Norse armies were evenly split among women and men. I’m as disappointed as you are.”