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Yeah. Both are female despite living in societies that would laugh at a woman trying to be a warrior (even Norse society was patriarchal. Shieldmaidens were myth.) I liked the Sea of Trolls trilogy where the former shieldmaiden admits that if Odin saw her, he'd tell her to fetch his mead.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the moment they let people choose the gender of their character, they started making the female option canon?

Every work of fiction set in this era likes to glorify vikings over Anglo-Saxons. We all know it's because a Christian civilization has to be the oppressor somehow.