Ancient norse killed gays

Accounts written in were also written by Christian men, using the Christian technology of writing, and whose worldview would have roundly condemned homosexuality. Homosexuality did not have a good reputation during the Viking age as portrayed by the Christian writers.

Queer History: Myths, Legends, & Religions

By thinking about how queerness can show up in the mythological and physical worlds, we can honour our queer past and gain a better understanding of the Viking Age. They can be found on Twitter queertyyr. Search this site. Embedded Files. The one-eyed Odin with his ravens Hugin and Munin and his weapons.

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Orpheus, who is famous for trying to bring back his wife, Eurydice, swore off female lovers when he failed to resurrect her and only had male lovers mainly Thracians until he was torn apart by a bunch of crazed women during a Bacchus orgy. Tiresias, a mortal, was changed into a woman for seven years before being changed back into a man, and was blinded after he proclaimed that women enjoy sex so much more than men.

This seems to be in reference to Odin earlier bragging about practicing magic and having sex with a number of women. My second approach uses modern understandings of queerness to explore how these identities could have looked in the past. While queer people have always existed, the way that queerness looked is not static, and we have to be very careful with our language.