As Stockholm Pri kicks off this week, you might be wonrg whether Swen's stat as a centre for gay culture is a recent phenomenon. Alex Volk, a Stockholm tour gui and rearcher, is showg that this is far om the se, wh a tour that highlights LGBT history datg back to the Vikg Age.
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NORDIC VIKG AND THEIR GAY LIFTYLE: HISTORY AND HOMOSEXUALY
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? * homosexuality in vikings *
Vikg men are often picted, ntradictorily, as both homoerotic and prejudiced agast gay people. Tth and misnceptn exist such pictns, on acunt of the unrstandg of homosexual behavr Vikg culture. Before the arrival of Christiany, Norse people didn't view homosexualy as opposed to laws of nature, man, or gods.
Homosexual relatnships between iends - or, at least, perative anal sex between male iends - was nsired betrayal, bee nsisted of one iend emasculatg the other. However, 's possible homosexualy beme ls stigmatized for men who were married and had children, bee they were fished wh their duty to propagate their bloodle. Last weekend’s Gay Pri remd me of another topic that I’ve been thkg of wrg about for a while now: homosexualy vikg era Iceland.