The Vikgs are famo for their fierce warrr culture, and rich pantheon of gods and godss, but are you aware that the Nordic Vikgs had elements of a gay liftyle their society?
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- THE SECRET LGBTI HISTORY OF VIKGS, VALKYRI AND NORSE GODSSTEFANIA SARBBA·FOLLOW5 M READ·OCT 17, 2018--1LISTENSHARELOKI AND VALKYRIE A SCENE OF THOR: RAGNAROK. | PHOTO: MARVEL/WALT DISNEYYOU DON’T NEED TO HOLD A PHD NORSE MYTHOLOGY TO KNOW THAT VIKG WARRRS AND NORSE GODS WERE AMONG THE QUEERT OF ALL TIM.THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE HTED AT THAT, ALTHOUGH VERY VAGUELY, ON SEVERAL OCSNS.DPE THE MOVI WATERED DOWN THE ICS, IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE SAGA GOG BOLR THE FUTURE, PECIALLY WH A TV SHOW FOCG ON LOKI THE WORKS. DC WILL HAVE S FIRST LBIAN SUPERHERO, AFTER ALL. IT’S TIME MARVEL’S NORSE GODS AND HERO FOLLOWED SU.MOREOVER, BOTH TOM HIDDLTON AND TSA THOMPSON HAVE SAID THAT THEY PLAYED THEIR CHARACTERS THOR AND AVENGERS — LOKI AND VALKYRIE RPECTIVELY — AS BISEXUALS.IN THE ICS, VALKYRIE HAS A RELATNSHIP WH ANTHROPOLOGIST ANNABELLE RIGGS.THOMPSON, WHO IS BISEXUAL, ALSO NFIRMED THERE WAS A SCENE OM THOR: RAGNAROK THAT WOULD HAVE MA HER CHARACTER’S ATTRACTN TO BOTH GENRS NON. THE SCENE, SHOWG A WOMAN WALKG OUT OF VALKYRIE’S BEDROOM, WOULD HAVE IMPLIED THE WARRR DAT BOTH GUYS AND GIRLS, BUT SADLY DIDN’T MAKE TO THE FAL CUT.THERE MIGHT TAKE TIME FOR MARVEL TO GIVE THE HISTORILLY ACCURATE, QUEER NORSE FOLKS WE SERVE. IN THE MEANTIME, GSN UNPACKED EARLY NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY TO REVEAL THE LGBTI ELEMENTS GODS AND HERO’ TAL OM THE VIKG AGE.LOKI IS BISEXUAL AND GENR-FLUIDSOME GODS, HERO AND HIGHLY RPECTED PRITS APPARENTLY DULGED HOMOSEXUAL PRACTIC.THE TRICKSTER GOD LOKI IS SURELY ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT EXAMPL THIS REGARD. HIS BISEXUALY AND GENR-FLUIDY ARE NON, ACRDG TO THE CCIAL TEXTS OF NORSE LERATURE, PROSE AND POETIC EDDA.ALTHOUGH THE TEXTS WERE WRTEN 200 OR 300 YEARS AFTER THE ACTUAL VIKG AGE (793–1066 AD) AND WERE THEREFORE EPLY FLUENCED BY CHRISTIANY, THEY ARE VALUABLE SOURC TO HAVE A GRASP OF HOW SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE REGARD AT THE TIME.LOKI IS FELY BISEXUAL AND A SHAPHIFTER. HE N CHANGE SPECI AND GENR AT HIS WILL — OR SHOULD WE SAY, THEIR?SPECIFILLY, LOKI TURNS TO A MARE, HAS A SEXUAL ENUNTER WH A GIANT’S STALLN AND GIV BIRTH, AS ATTTED GYLFAGNG, THE FIRST PART OF PROSE EDDA, DATG BACK TO THE 13TH CENTURY.THE THOR OF PROSE EDDA SNORRI STURLON WROTE THAT ‘LOKI HAD HAD SUCH ALGS WH SVAðILFARI (THE STALLN) THAT SOMETIME LATER HE BORE A FOAL’.BOTH THE POETIC AND THE PROSE EDDA CLARIFY THAT THE FOAL WILL GROW TO BEE OD’S EIGHT-LEGGED STEED SLEIPNIR. IT IS SAFE TO SAY LOKI AND SVAðILFARI ARE SAME-SEX PARENTS.OD PRACTIC WOMEN’S MAGICTHE ALLFATHER OD PRACTICED SEIðR, A FORM OF MAGIC TRADNALLY ASSOCIATED WH WOMEN THAT HE LEARNED OM GODSS FREYA.IN THE LOKASENNA, A POEM THE POETIC EDDA WHERE LOKI SULTS ALL OTHER GODS, HE MOCKS OD FOR PRACTICG THIS KD OF MAGIC.ACCG A MAN OF SEIðR WAS ONE OF THE GREATT OFFENS. WOMEN’S MAGIC OR WCHCRAFT, FACT, IMPLIED THAT THE PRACTNER PLAYED THE WOMAN’S PART THE SEXUAL ACT.BOTTOM-SHAMG WAS A THG THE VIKG AGEMALE HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE NTEMPLATED THE VIKG AGE PRR TO CHRISTIANIZATN.IN THE PAGAN AGE, FACT, THE MON LANGUAGE CLUD WORDS TO REFER TO SAME-SEX TERURSE, MALY ED AS SLURS.GAY SEX WASN’T UNUAL, BUT A MAN ULDN’T BE WH MALE PARTNERS FOR ALL HIS LIFE. HE HAD TO NFORM TO THE TRADNAL ROLE OF HBAND AND FATHER, HENCE MARRYG A WOMAN AND HAVG CHILDREN.WHILE THERE WASN’T ANYTHG SHAMEFUL WH BEG ACTIVE A GAY RELATNSHIP, VIKGS NSIRED THE PASSIVE PARTNERS AS WEAK.THEY ED TO RAPE ENEMI AFTER WNG A BATTLE ORR TO HUIATE THEM. THEREFORE, THOSE WHO WERE PASSIVE A SAME-SEX SEXUAL ENUNTER WERE EMED NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE LEARS.PREBEN MLENGRACHT SøRENSON IS THE THOR OF AN SAY ON SEXUAL FAMATN EARLY NORTHERN SOCIETI. HE EXPLAED THAT HAVG TERURSE WH A BELOVED IEND WAS THE WORST SORT OF BETRAYAL OR LACK OF LOYALTY DUE TO THE LK BETWEEN GAY SEX AND ENEMY-SHAMG.OVERALL, VIKGS DIDN’T REGARD HOMOSEXUALY AS SOMETHG AGAST NATURE. THEY RATHER BELIEVED BEG PASSIVE WAS SOMETHG AFFECTG A WARRR’S STRENGTH AND MANHOOD, CCIAL QUALI DURG A RAID.POLYAMORY AND FEMALE BISEXUALY
- NORDIC VIKG AND THEIR GAY LIFTYLE: HISTORY AND HOMOSEXUALY
THE SECRET LGBTI HISTORY OF VIKGS, VALKYRI AND NORSE GODSSTEFANIA SARBBA·FOLLOW5 M READ·OCT 17, 2018--1LISTENSHARELOKI AND VALKYRIE A SCENE OF THOR: RAGNAROK. | PHOTO: MARVEL/WALT DISNEYYOU DON’T NEED TO HOLD A PHD NORSE MYTHOLOGY TO KNOW THAT VIKG WARRRS AND NORSE GODS WERE AMONG THE QUEERT OF ALL TIM.THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE HTED AT THAT, ALTHOUGH VERY VAGUELY, ON SEVERAL OCSNS.DPE THE MOVI WATERED DOWN THE ICS, IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE SAGA GOG BOLR THE FUTURE, PECIALLY WH A TV SHOW FOCG ON LOKI THE WORKS. DC WILL HAVE S FIRST LBIAN SUPERHERO, AFTER ALL. IT’S TIME MARVEL’S NORSE GODS AND HERO FOLLOWED SU.MOREOVER, BOTH TOM HIDDLTON AND TSA THOMPSON HAVE SAID THAT THEY PLAYED THEIR CHARACTERS THOR AND AVENGERS — LOKI AND VALKYRIE RPECTIVELY — AS BISEXUALS.IN THE ICS, VALKYRIE HAS A RELATNSHIP WH ANTHROPOLOGIST ANNABELLE RIGGS.THOMPSON, WHO IS BISEXUAL, ALSO NFIRMED THERE WAS A SCENE OM THOR: RAGNAROK THAT WOULD HAVE MA HER CHARACTER’S ATTRACTN TO BOTH GENRS NON. THE SCENE, SHOWG A WOMAN WALKG OUT OF VALKYRIE’S BEDROOM, WOULD HAVE IMPLIED THE WARRR DAT BOTH GUYS AND GIRLS, BUT SADLY DIDN’T MAKE TO THE FAL CUT.THERE MIGHT TAKE TIME FOR MARVEL TO GIVE THE HISTORILLY ACCURATE, QUEER NORSE FOLKS WE SERVE. IN THE MEANTIME, GSN UNPACKED EARLY NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY TO REVEAL THE LGBTI ELEMENTS GODS AND HERO’ TAL OM THE VIKG AGE.LOKI IS BISEXUAL AND GENR-FLUIDSOME GODS, HERO AND HIGHLY RPECTED PRITS APPARENTLY DULGED HOMOSEXUAL PRACTIC.THE TRICKSTER GOD LOKI IS SURELY ONE OF THE MOST PROMENT EXAMPL THIS REGARD. HIS BISEXUALY AND GENR-FLUIDY ARE NON, ACRDG TO THE CCIAL TEXTS OF NORSE LERATURE, PROSE AND POETIC EDDA.ALTHOUGH THE TEXTS WERE WRTEN 200 OR 300 YEARS AFTER THE ACTUAL VIKG AGE (793–1066 AD) AND WERE THEREFORE EPLY FLUENCED BY CHRISTIANY, THEY ARE VALUABLE SOURC TO HAVE A GRASP OF HOW SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE REGARD AT THE TIME.LOKI IS FELY BISEXUAL AND A SHAPHIFTER. HE N CHANGE SPECI AND GENR AT HIS WILL — OR SHOULD WE SAY, THEIR?SPECIFILLY, LOKI TURNS TO A MARE, HAS A SEXUAL ENUNTER WH A GIANT’S STALLN AND GIV BIRTH, AS ATTTED GYLFAGNG, THE FIRST PART OF PROSE EDDA, DATG BACK TO THE 13TH CENTURY.THE THOR OF PROSE EDDA SNORRI STURLON WROTE THAT ‘LOKI HAD HAD SUCH ALGS WH SVAðILFARI (THE STALLN) THAT SOMETIME LATER HE BORE A FOAL’.BOTH THE POETIC AND THE PROSE EDDA CLARIFY THAT THE FOAL WILL GROW TO BEE OD’S EIGHT-LEGGED STEED SLEIPNIR. IT IS SAFE TO SAY LOKI AND SVAðILFARI ARE SAME-SEX PARENTS.OD PRACTIC WOMEN’S MAGICTHE ALLFATHER OD PRACTICED SEIðR, A FORM OF MAGIC TRADNALLY ASSOCIATED WH WOMEN THAT HE LEARNED OM GODSS FREYA.IN THE LOKASENNA, A POEM THE POETIC EDDA WHERE LOKI SULTS ALL OTHER GODS, HE MOCKS OD FOR PRACTICG THIS KD OF MAGIC.ACCG A MAN OF SEIðR WAS ONE OF THE GREATT OFFENS. WOMEN’S MAGIC OR WCHCRAFT, FACT, IMPLIED THAT THE PRACTNER PLAYED THE WOMAN’S PART THE SEXUAL ACT.BOTTOM-SHAMG WAS A THG THE VIKG AGEMALE HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE NTEMPLATED THE VIKG AGE PRR TO CHRISTIANIZATN.IN THE PAGAN AGE, FACT, THE MON LANGUAGE CLUD WORDS TO REFER TO SAME-SEX TERURSE, MALY ED AS SLURS.GAY SEX WASN’T UNUAL, BUT A MAN ULDN’T BE WH MALE PARTNERS FOR ALL HIS LIFE. HE HAD TO NFORM TO THE TRADNAL ROLE OF HBAND AND FATHER, HENCE MARRYG A WOMAN AND HAVG CHILDREN.WHILE THERE WASN’T ANYTHG SHAMEFUL WH BEG ACTIVE A GAY RELATNSHIP, VIKGS NSIRED THE PASSIVE PARTNERS AS WEAK.THEY ED TO RAPE ENEMI AFTER WNG A BATTLE ORR TO HUIATE THEM. THEREFORE, THOSE WHO WERE PASSIVE A SAME-SEX SEXUAL ENUNTER WERE EMED NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE LEARS.PREBEN MLENGRACHT SøRENSON IS THE THOR OF AN SAY ON SEXUAL FAMATN EARLY NORTHERN SOCIETI. HE EXPLAED THAT HAVG TERURSE WH A BELOVED IEND WAS THE WORST SORT OF BETRAYAL OR LACK OF LOYALTY DUE TO THE LK BETWEEN GAY SEX AND ENEMY-SHAMG.OVERALL, VIKGS DIDN’T REGARD HOMOSEXUALY AS SOMETHG AGAST NATURE. THEY RATHER BELIEVED BEG PASSIVE WAS SOMETHG AFFECTG A WARRR’S STRENGTH AND MANHOOD, CCIAL QUALI DURG A RAID.POLYAMORY AND FEMALE BISEXUALY
In the meantime, GSN unpacked early northern mythology to reveal the LGBTI elements gods and hero’ tal om the Vikg is bisexual and genr-fluidSome gods, hero and highly rpected prits apparently dulged homosexual trickster god Loki is surely one of the most proment exampl this regard. Women’s magic or wchcraft, fact, implied that the practner played the woman’s part the sexual was a thg the Vikg AgeMale homosexualy and bisexualy were ntemplated the Vikg Age prr to the pagan age, fact, the mon language clud words to refer to same-sex terurse, maly ed as sex wasn’t unual, but a man uldn’t be wh male partners for all his life.
He had to nform to the tradnal role of hband and father, hence marryg a woman and havg there wasn’t anythg shameful wh beg active a gay relatnship, Vikgs nsired the passive partners as ed to rape enemi after wng a battle orr to huiate them. He explaed that havg terurse wh a beloved iend was the worst sort of betrayal or lack of loyalty due to the lk between gay sex and enemy-shamg. Overall, Vikgs didn’t regard homosexualy as somethg agast nature.
She was charge of the hoe om a fancial pot of view and uld even ci to divorce her then Christians me alongIt shouldn’t be surprisg if homosexualy beme explicly prohibed after the Christianizatn, which took place around the 12th Old Icelandic Hoy Book, which dat back to 1200, is a llectn of Old Wt Norse sermons. It clus a sermon which enlists homosexualy among ‘those appallg secret ss perpetrated by men who rpect men no more than women, or vlate quadpeds’ applied to both men and women. To learn more about queer Vikgs, check out the podst Vikgs Are Gay!, or follow Eirn on TikTok @VikgsAreGay.
NORDIC VIKG AND THEIR GAY LIFTYLE: HISTORY AND HOMOSEXUALY
Are you aware that the Nordic Vikgs had elements of a gay liftyle their society? Vikg myths and legends ntue to pture the imagatn of people today, makg them an ial study group for people that want to unrstand homosexualy and how the subject has changed over time.