Adaptations for a heroic viking campaign

[SilverLeaf167]

If I wanted to DM a campaign based on vikings and ancient Finnish mythology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_mythology), what adaptations should I make into the game to make it fit the theme better? Primarily, I'd want to make non-casters a better choice, as well as making the choice between using a 2h weapon OR a 1h weapon and shield OR a ranged weapon more even.

Yes, I know there weren't any Finnish vikings, but that can be easily adapted for the campaign.

The only thing I've thought of so far:

The only available casters are Spirit Shaman, Sorcerer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louhi), Warlock and Bard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%A4m%C3%B6inen)

[TroubleBrewing]

There was a guy doing a Viking-themed game a while back. The thread is probably still around.

It was by no means historically accurate, just themed in a certain way. You might try something similar.

[SilverLeaf167]

Well, as this game is supposed to have some casters and Finnish vikings, it's obviously not historically correct either, just themed as similarly as possible.
Would you have a link for that topic?

[TroubleBrewing]

I'd use the Advanced Search option. Pretty sure the thread title had the word "Viking" in it.

I'd do it for you, but I'm headed to work right now.

[SilverLeaf167]

The only one I could find was someone asking but how to make a viking character, but it didn't really have any good information.

As a side note here, I don't need anyone to post "basic info" about Finnish culture like what happened in that thread. (see "Location" on the left)