Oh, my humble greetings to Korea!

Well, yes, sure there were regional differences and you are generally speaking right. In east slash and burn agriculture was the dominant form of farming, in west and south-west they did more settled farming with some additional slash-and-burn. But if I remember correctly what we studied at the University, those regular hunting trips were especially characteristic of the more settled cultures. In a way it makes sense - living near your settled fields, then occasionally travelling out into the wilds where fish and game populations are rich.

But if you allow yourself some freedom of imagination, I think you could take Driik (in real life Turku-region) as a culture so settled that they already begin to have more city-like structures and specialiced professions. Turku is our oldest city, and I think it started to grow already a thousand years ago, so it might well be that it was the only city-like structure in Finland at those times. And yes, it is a coastal place, with Viking traders regularly visiting. So, I guess it might have been that our 1000 AD population already had a handful of families who didn't have that much wilderness experience =)

Hmm... there isn't that much written history to document gender roles in pagan Finland. There are reports of Sami women hunting, and stone age cave paintings of female archers. But I'm not so sure about Iron Age culture. Yet, Finland was the first European country to allow women to vote (at 1906), so that speaks something of our less strict gender division. Also, I'd guess gender roles is one of the things which has a lot of regional variance. The more tougher it gets, the less you can allow to have strict gender roles - when it is question of surviving, everyone is going to split wood with an axe, cook food, mend clothes or what not.

EDIT: it just came to my mind that regarding to women being independent or doing "mens work" - in many cases it might be relative to age. Young, unmarried maidens are supposed to take more female role, and when they get married there is a natural division of work, the woman taking care of kids and household, the man building, hunting, farming and fishing. But for widows or otherwise unmarried women it is more natural to go out hunting or fishing themselves - having no family to sustain and no man to feed them, they are going to do it themselves (well, of course they might stay living with their parents taking care of them when they get old, but still they could occasionally go out hunting or some such)