I can't imagine someone arguing in the military with their superiors at all, let alone over something like this? And I'm sure they could easily learn what they don't know, especially from the guy himself.
Pretty sure it shouldn't matter what you believe in, you adhere to the dress code of the army or you don't apply.
Making rules and exceptions for people ruins the entire point of a uniform. A uniform is to make people uniform.
As far as I'm aware there's no part of the surviving mythology that states having a beard is required. However, Germanic/Nordic society at the time strongly frowned upon beardless men to the point where there was an actual insult for it, so that's where this interpretation comes from. I don't particularly agree with the interpretation but I'm still glad to see it's getting some representation.
The great and terrible thing about Norse paganism is that there is no real unbroken line through which the religion descended. The pagan beliefs largely died out at around 1060 CE, and most of the stories were told as folk tales until they were written by Snorri Sturluson sometime between the 12th and 13th centuries. It's an entirely reconstructed religion, so there's vast differences in interpretations of what the stories mean.
People have argued with their superiors before for pettier reasons before, simpler things that could have been avoided. It happens far more commonly than you think, if captain's masts were more open to the public you would see hundreds of cases of people disobeying or getting into altercations with their superior petty officers or officers. Especially marine vs navy from personal view.
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