This paper deals with a comparison of information about everyday life and the roles of Viking-Age women provided by the sources and the image created about them by popular culture, primarily through literature and cinematography. The typical roles assigned to Viking-Age women, such as the roles of wife, mother, and housewife, are first studied. The work then touches on roles that were not specific to every woman of the Viking Age, but there is still evidence that individual women have engaged in it, and these are trade, colonization, and Old Norse religious rituals. Then follows a study of the status of Viking-Age women in society and her legal rights. After that, the warrior aspect of Viking women is studied, that is, relying primarily on archaeological evidence, an attempt is made to determine is there a possibility that Viking-Age women were warriors equal to men. The last large part of the paper studies popular literature and cinema dealing with Viking themes, analyzing certain literary works and the television series Vikings, and then concludes on the perception of Viking-Age women through these media, specifically how accurate such an interpretation of the lives and roles of Viking-Age women is and to what extent this perception coincides with that provided to us by historical sources, that is, to what extent has it changed in relation to the sources. At the end of the paper, a conclusion is made about how credible the perception of a Viking-Age woman provided by popular culture is.