So, I asked Chatgpt if it could come up with a name for Raiden but with Down syndrome. Instead, I got into a 20 minute debate about how "punching down" isn't a thing and no one is immune to being made fun of.
Guess that makes me the retard.
Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon story and even then the protagonist is a male. Because even back in the 8th to 11th century when that story was written they knew that women wouldn't stand a chance against a monster like Grendel, a Yautja or even a single average male.
Mostly portrayed in myth and only 1 count where they found a burial with armor and weapons and later discovered it was female remains and not male.
Which doesn't mean they existed...
They just can't help themselves. They just need to thrust a woman into situations she would never survive yet she always comes out on top. Especially in the Viking age. They just have to push THE MESSAGE.