I've found a sentance that will be my 'inspiration'.
On time team - viking special the other night they talked about a cave with viking graffiti on it and one phrase stood out at me:

"Ingebjork the fair widow - many a woman has walked stooping in here a very showy person" signed by "Erlingr"

There's gotta be a story behind that. Was thinking plotwise woman all proud, won't marry the poor warrior and chooses rich chief, her husband is killed and she has to 'stoop' to enter the cave where he's buried and now she's poor she becomes humble and wants to marry poor guy but he turns her down.