• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They’d kidnap and enslave them just like everyone else; true egalitarians!

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      5 months ago

      tbf that’s like talking about the US miliary, who do horrible things without most of the population being aware of it

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Close to 100% viking here, you’re welcome! I might enslave you though, but without prejudice.

  • exanime@lemmy.world
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    Loki turned into a mare to get properly fucked by a stallion, get pregnant and deliver an 8 legged super horse (Sleipnir) that Odin proudly rode around… yeah, they are very fine with gender fluidity

  • x4740N@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m sure a whole lot of people where fine with it until the christofasciast colonisers and occupiers had their way

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    Read more norse mythology for smart people at

    https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/odin/

    He’s a war-god, but also a poetry-god, and he has prominent “effeminate” qualities that would have brought unspeakable shame to any historical Viking warrior.

    cal tradition known as seidr, of which Odin and Freya are the foremost divine practitioners. In traditional Germanic society, for a man to engage in seidr was effectively to forsake the male gender role, which brought considerable scorn upon any male who chose to take up this path. As the sagas show, this didn’t stop some men from practicing seidr anyway. However, even Odin wasn’t exempt from such charges of “unmanliness,” and was taunted for adopting the feminine traits and tasks that form part of the backbone of seidr. Saxo, in the passage on Odin’s exile alluded to above, relates that “by his stage-tricks and his assumption of a woman’s work he had brought the foulest scandal on the name of the gods.”[16] Note also the reference to being “fertilized” in the verse quoted above – while this is certainly a metaphor, it’s a metaphor loaded with sexual implications that would have been immediately recognizable to any Viking Age or medieval reader or hearer of the poem. A fuller discussion of the relationship between Germanic shamanism and gender roles can be found here: https://norse-mythology.org/concepts/shamanism/

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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    Vikings also fucked their friend’s wife when he died. Also were supporters of slavery and have abused their slaves. Am failing to see the point?

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      6 months ago

      Historical fact, most of the surviving written records about their society, etc.

  • Veticia@lemmy.ml
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    I’m pretty sure modern day viking descendants are ok with them.

  • Oisteink@lemmy.world
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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

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      Or actually they might care for how you dress as they were very vain and loved to dress up. Quite fancy

    • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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      Frøya from Norsemen demonstrates this in pretty shocking way when she face rapes some dude for challenging her Vikingness.

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        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.

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        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.

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      5 months ago

      Pretty sure they all got drunk and high and fucked each other in the forest irregardless of gender, to praise their gods.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    “NYUUU! THEY WERE WHITE GUYS AND SUPER STRAIGHT AND THEY LOVED JESUS aND… ANDajdas.” - Right Wingers