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It's really not a big deal.
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Pretty sure Loki was the mother of Odin's horse.
And you are correct!
He also got Thor to dress as Freya to pretend to marry a giant king
I personally don't see that is one of those trans Loki moments, because I'm cis, love joking, and identify with Loki in the tale.
If I were in that situation, I would 1000% find it hilarious to convince my best bro the only way to get their most prized possession back is to crossdress and trick a King.
Classic Loki.
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They’d kidnap and enslave them just like everyone else; true egalitarians!
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Close to 100% viking here, you're welcome! I might enslave you though, but without prejudice.
Nice try viking. By viking law you can only keep what you kill and a dead slave is worthless, therefore taking a corpse as a slave has no standing. You will just have to settle for the plunder and be on your way.
I, for one, welcome our new, tolerant, Viking overlords.
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I'm sure a whole lot of people where fine with it until the christofasciast colonisers and occupiers had their way
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
I mean, Loki was ultimately a villain, so it's more like they perfected the queer-coded villain archetype, but there's also evidence both that Shieldmaidens were a thing and some Shieldbrethen were assigned-as-Shieldmaidens-at-birth. How accepted that would have really been we simply do not know, or how much norms changed by region and time. Or even whether they would have thought you were stupid for asking if ladies could fight in "men's clothing," aka, armor.
There is also quite a lot of difference between a Dane, a Kievan Rus, and a citizen of what was basically a republic in Iceland in 930 AD.
Pretending the Vikings/Norse/Whatever were some pinnacle of ancient tolerance is just as wrong as pretending they followed practices that map 1-to-1 on modern bigotry. They were an immensely patriarchal culture, whose economy was quite literally based on chattel slavery on a scale that would only be matched by American plantatioms, with a whole slew of what can only be called toxic masculinity, who only could ever look good in comparison to Roman and Abrahamic norms, but that's the comparison Westerners will inevitably make in their favor because that is the standard they know.
Doesn't Loki being a villain vary from myth to myth? In some he's just mischievous, in others outright malicious. The Ragnarok myth has him leading the armies of the dead, but I've always wondered how modified the story is due to the influence of Christian monks...
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Who cares what a bunch of savage pillagers would have wanted?
What I'm sure of is that the forefathers of modern civilization, the Romans, would have fucking loved trans folks.
I mean, the Romans were just industrialized pillagers. Who cares what they would have thought.
Yeah! What have the romans ever done for us?!
I mean, if you’re going to disregard the contributions of Viking culture because they were notorious for their pillaging, it’s only fair to disregard Rome, whose entire economy was based on systematized pillaging.
Both cultures have contributions, but the wholesale massacre of other civilizations gets a pass when we discuss Rome for some reason.
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So, you're talking about the people that emulated greek culture as they viewed it as more refined than their own?
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Viking: Can you fight?
Trans Viking: yeah!
Viking: cool, let's go fuck some shit up!
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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Yeah 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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Ooo - 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.
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Frøya 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.
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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/
Canonically accurate.
Edit: Huh, you're going to have to open the image in a new tab to actually read the comic.
who said they wouldn’t
A lot of alt right dickheads use viking insignia and culture to their advantage in dogwistling and such, which sucks and I'm assuming what is being referenced.
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I'm pretty sure modern day viking descendants are ok with them.
"NYUUU! THEY WERE WHITE GUYS AND SUPER STRAIGHT AND THEY LOVED JESUS aND.. ANDajdas." - Right Wingers
Our very own VikingHippie is fine with them, at least.
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