As far as the rules go, yes it is possible. 10% time&resources to be a communal worshipper, 20% time&resources to Orane, 20% time&resources to Vinga. This is a little less than the commitment required of a devotee....but it is the sort of time that doesn't leave much time for anything else, assuming she also has a role around the stead. In the long run, few people can keep up being that maxed out on their time&resources commitments, but of course that can be one of things worked out in game--I'd just play up the commitments. Conflicting requests from priests of the two gods. She has to miss the night patrol to stand vigil in the loom house for some ceremony, then the night patrol is mauled by attackers. The fyrd goes into extra training because of rumors of a raid, and she falls behind on her weaving of a rug that is owed to cover a debt and due by a certain date. A decision is made in the loom house that does not favor her family, and her six sisters blame her for not being there to help give them the numbers to block it. And so on.
Of course people would regard this as strange. The women would ask why she just doesn't marry a man to defend her, so she can give proper attention to her other tasks. The men don't believe she is serious as a warrior, or she wouldn't be spending so much time in the loom house--some may even object to her being in the fyrd or on patrol with them, suggesting she is at best half trained making her dangerous to those around her. The trickster suggests that she just marry herself, since she is being man and woman at once--at everyone laughs with the trickster this time. Think in general of all the abuse that women took when first entering the work force as wives and mothers (note that in my grandmother's generation young women worked, but were required by most companies to quit their job when they got married. You shouldn't have to look too hard to find records of the abuse the first women to buck this took).
In short, I think there is a ton of story in the idea, so go for it :)
--Bryan
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