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Actually this is more or less true. The Norse were agrarian for much of their history, and their militant religion actually comes from a lack of warfare encouraging a fixation on it. You saw a similar thing happen with the Japanese during the peace of the Tokugawa period, they hyperfocused on "muh samurai, muh death, muh honor" when the ability to engage in such things was in short supply.
The common depiction of Vikings as raiders comes from the climate instability of the late Roman period, when they were forced to leave their farms and seek plunder abroad. And because their targets were Christian churches (who owned a lot of land following the collapse of the Roman Empire) and the Christian monks in those churches were in charge of historical record keeping, the image we have of 'vikings' is skewed. 'Vikings' as a concept doesn't even really exist, as they were just Germanics living in Scandinavia. They're not anything more complicated than that.