Is Vikings Historically Accurate? What It Gets Right

But even if "shieldmaiden" wasn't an actual thing, Dr. Godlove assures us that "women had a great deal more political influence and many more legal rights" in this particular society than in any other known medieval cultures."

It was the ladies’ jobs to protect their families by inciting the men to do great deeds and avenge wrongs and killings. The Siggy character epitomizes this to the extreme. Think of all the whispering she did in her men's ears.