You can run away from someone holding a gun. I did. Worked great.
It's okay. In a few years, we'll be using drones.
In a few years I'll have smart nanoarmor.
And it's hard to stab 70 people ..
A viking cares nothing about difficulty when there are plans to be made.
The #1 weapon of mass murderers, despite what the media would have you believe, is fire.
Throwing knives, throwing axes?
And, the grandparent commenter's comment duly considered, I still wouldn't easily dismiss a Finn's ability to use guns to kill people; see the White Death[1].
Throwing a knife/axe to useful effect is difficult enough with a stationary target under calm conditions. The number of people able to do so with malice under high stress at a moving target is vanishingly small.