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The vikings only cares if you behave Viking. Ethnicity don’t matter. Sexuality don’t matter. And I can’t fathom that they’d care for how you dress. As long as you have Viking values you are top notch
Or actually they might care for how you dress as they were very vain and loved to dress up. Quite fancy
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asdfasfasfasfasYeah this thread is full of idiots who care more about Marvel movies than about historical fact.
Norse society was hyper masculine and being called womanlike was just about the worst insult you could give to someone. Nobody "worshipped" Loki, he was the antagonist/occasionally the antihero of their stories, but the takeaway of the stories was always meant to be "Loki is not a role model"
Why do people care if a society of slavers and pillagers from 1200 years ago were progressive by modern standards? What an idiotic thing to be so confidently wrong about.
Scandiboos don't care for historical facts. Somehow, Nordic slaver pirates seem to have the best PR team in history and they eat up every last bit.
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asdfasfasfasfasOoo - a true master on Viking history here!! Tell us all about how it really was and what values they had. What ethnicities they accepted and how they viewed homosexuality?
Accusing a man of being “ergi,” which is basically unmanly, was enough of an insult to be answered with blood. A specific instance of something that qualifies a man of being ergi is taking the passive role (bottom) in homosexual intercourse.
Author and Norse historian Neil Price describes “Viking” culture as being one of the most homophobic in history.
Yet being top was accepted and revered. I’d say they were somewhat bi-friendly, and I’ve yet to hear about how they viewed lesbians.
Both Loki and Odin takes the roles/duties of women several times, while not being cast out or referred to as ergi.
Cross dressing I think was harder to execute as the manly outfits were lavish already.
When the giant Thyrm stole Thor's hammer and wanted to marry Freya, the other gods made Thor dress in drag and pretend to be the bride to get it back.
Thor literally doesn’t want to dress as a woman in this story EXPRESSLY because he fears being labeled ergi. He says this explicitly.
This is story is a comedy, and this portion of it is told as a joke at Thor’s expense, where Loki and Freya tease him about it.
I think in that case a neat Latin phrase applies:
Quid licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
"using gay as an insult" is not proof of extreme homophobia. By that logic every teenager on the planet would be extreme homophobic.
In fact, pretty much every descriptive word can be used as an insult. If anything your example proofs, that vikings take insults very serious.
Please don’t accuse me of making claims I did not. I gave one example of homophobia and the opinion of a respected historian. Not every insult was taken as seriously as ergi. Very few insults were as dire. This is ONE example of Viking homophobia. I don’t give a shit if they were homophobic or not, they’re dead.
So is a gay man calling another gay man a faggot. The use as essentially equivalent with "bottom" is only attested since the medieval age.
On the flipside we have things like shield maidens and the survival of the old gods alongside with the patriarchal Indo-European newcomers, very uncommon, those things don't happen by accident. People don't talk about peace treaties between gods out of the blue -- And Odin isn't even the sky father, that'd be Thor (to wit, lightning and thunder) while Odin is engaging in seidhr. Call him a bottom, then! Making a claim such as "most homophobic in history" out of a single word given what else there's attested about the society is rather rich.
The truth is that we don't know much but this: That any contemporary political group leaning it one way or the other is full of shit.
Please don’t accuse me of making claims I did not. I gave one example of Viking homophobia. It’s also a big example, as “not appearing as an ergi” is pretty much the driving motivation for many of the gods in the tales we have. This means being manly in general, and being penetrated by another is just one thing that immediately labels you as ergi.
Neil Price did not make his claim that Vikings were severely homophobic from a single word either (no idea where you got this). You are free to read his work yourself for more information.
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asdfasfasfasfasDude this is the internet, the burden of proof is on the person anyone says "Source?" to first.
In seriousness though, we're shooting the shit here. The burden of proof is shared equally. Someone said something, they gave reasoning (a form of evidence) why they think that thing, and you just came and said "No you're wrong." The ball is firmly in your court to explain why.
how about if I prove my points and you prove they’re lies
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asdfasfasfasfasRight - then I’ll just block you
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asdfasfasfasfasFrøya from Norsemen demonstrates this in pretty shocking way when she face rapes some dude for challenging her Vikingness.
Viking virtues like staying true to your word, even if that means death. A deviation of this is the stoning of men that tried to flee from combat - by their wives.
Viking society was very gender based with clear roles for man and woman, and while being a bottom would hurt your manly rep, being the active partner in a homosexual relation would bolster it.
Children still had top prio, so without a wife being too didn’t make the cut.
I'd have let her do it, not that I'd have a choice, but I'd rather be willing, conscious, and proven a fool than unconscious and left only with the smell of her victory.
Let your freak flag fly!
Pretty sure they all got drunk and high and fucked each other in the forest irregardless of gender, to praise their gods.