Know the era (date) of this "Viking" woman? (I was kinda waiting for SunkenCiv's likely related links, cuz he always seems to be able to pull up good stuff from his archives that help to round out info in newer articles.) There was a lot of migration in all directions.
http://www.friesian.com/germania.htm#early
ah, here's what I was loki-ing for:
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/Heruler&article_id=6196418
(2) An eye-witness account by the Arab Ibn Fadlan during the years AD 921-922. Ibn Fadlan served as secretary of an embassy from the Caliphate of Baghdad to the Bulgars of the middle Volga. The eastern branch of the Vikings called the Rus (whose kingdom later gave the name Russia) had set up a camp and trading post in what would become the town of Bulgar, frequented by Arab traders. Ibn Fadlan's whole account of his journey has been translated into German and French, but never into English. Fortunately, the section on the ship-burial of a Viking king has been translated by a scholar H.M. Smyser in a paper comparing the ship-burial ritual with that in Beowulf, "Ibn Fadlan's Account of the Rus with Some Commentary and Some Allusions to Beowulf". This translated section has been included in Gwyn Jones' A History of the Vikings (Ref. 3), making it more accessible to the general public. This is a lengthy account, including the gruesome slaying of a slave girl to accompany the king to the netherworld. Here I quote only the part on ship-burning:
"Then the people came up with tinder and other firewood, each holding a piece of wood of which he had set fire to an end and which he put into the pile of wood beneath the ship. Thereupon the flames engulfed the wood, then the ship, the pavilion, the man, the girl, and everything in the ship. A powerful, fearful wind began to blow so that the flames became fiercer and more intense…"