I agree, they acheived a great deal and whilst seemingly barbarian warriors were in fact far more than that. I think it's good to look at their concepts through the Sagas and Eddas and apply them to us now. Of course, over a thousand years ago things were different, words meant different things and people thought differently. Some will translate and some won't.
I can't disagree with the stuff you say about social media and I believe most would be better off without it. Life was better before Facebook and Instagram and all. People were more connected to those that mattered and less connected to those that did not.
I think that their lives were very different. They were hard but also a lot simpler than what we live these days. Arguments were settled differently and friends were those that you worked alongside with and had full trust in, those you knew you could go to battle with and potentially be saved by or die for.
I love Hive and I've met so many really great people through it, but the others just don't have any soul. They detract more than they add of any good and I'm trying to do away with things like that. I'm a simple person and would rather spend 4 hours with a great friend drinking coffee and talking shit than spending 1 full hour on one of those platforms.