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minus-squarewhoops@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 months agoSure, but pop culture has confounded going viking with Norse culture at large.
minus-squareGreat_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 months agoTrue. But like with most ancient cultures, most were just fucking goat farmers or whatever. Their mythology is cool tho.
minus-squarewhoops@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months agoIt bugs me that we only know the post-Christianization version of their religion. Hence Odin getting hung on a not-cross
minus-squareSoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoI was really sad when I learned that the story about a crossdressing Thor pretending to marry a Jotun is possibly a Christian parody made to ridicule and insult their competition.
minus-squarewhoops@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoThe history of religion is basically every religion accusing every other religion of gay orgies and eating babies
Sure, but pop culture has confounded going viking with Norse culture at large.
True. But like with most ancient cultures, most were just fucking goat farmers or whatever. Their mythology is cool tho.
It bugs me that we only know the post-Christianization version of their religion. Hence Odin getting hung on a not-cross
I was really sad when I learned that the story about a crossdressing Thor pretending to marry a Jotun is possibly a Christian parody made to ridicule and insult their competition.
The history of religion is basically every religion accusing every other religion of gay orgies and eating babies