I’m glad that Tumblr as a whole recognises that the Norse people weren’t just drunk, smelly barbarians, but I think we might be swinging too far in the other direction and romanticising them. Especially when it comes to women’s rights. Norse women had it comparatively better than many of their contemporaries, but their society didn’t have perfect gender equality. It’s also important to remember that they kept slaves, and the legal protections and status of free women did not apply to enslaved women.