Transexual Vikings

[Loddfafner]

This is probably only relevant to heathenry as evidence against tendencies to use heathenry to enforce gender norms in imitation of Christian practice. When I visited the Swedish island of Birka with extensive Viking-age remnants, the guide who was an archaeologist pointed out that in certain of the gravesites, the sex of the skeletons did not match what one would expect based on the artifacts they were buried with. I could not find any published research to confirm this.

Recently, I stumbled on a short article originally published in Viking Heritage Magazine that summarized evidence that:

A number of prehistoric graves from Scandinavia, Holland and England challenge traditional assumptions about gender roles in the Viking Age. These prehistoric graves contain men buried in women's clothes and with what we perceive as typical female grave goods; and in death women have been supplied with weapons for their journey to the other side.

[Brännvin]

Give me break to relate Viking era with homosexualism . This is pure cultural relativism nonsense of a wrong interpretation of history supported by liberal movements openly insulting the Scandinavian/Northern European heritage and its people.

[Nodens]

Transvestism does not automatically entail transsexualism. And the find is certainly open to other interpretations.

[Matritensis]

Now this finally makes sense!

[Osweo]

Sam Lucy of the University of Durham wrote about similar things in English heathen burials, if you can look her up. I haven't read her relevant works, and don't know what to make of the mere hearsay I've heard so far.

[Óttar]

Transvestism does not automatically entail transsexualism.

Nor does it necessarily mean homosexuality, though there were homosexuals in every culture and era of course.

[Brännvin]

Nor does it necessarily mean homosexuality, though there were homosexuals in every culture and era of course.

Of course, only a small insignificantly tiny minority, but there is no reason for personal and relativistic interpretation of history as the OP.

By the way, homosexual acts was considered crimes in Sweden until 1944, the acceptance of homosexuality is generally product of a decadent degenerate society.

[Óttar]

By the way, homosexual acts was considered crimes in Sweden until 1944, the acceptance of homosexuality is generally product of a decadent degenerate society.

Wrong. Homophobia is a product of Abrahamism.

[Brännvin]

Wrong. Homophobia is a product of Abrahamism.

Wrong. To interpret Scandinavia Viking age just based on post-modern liberalism is ignorance, in better words relativism.

By the way, the article put a interrogation, the authors not confirm anything other than just speculation, different from the OP already confirming.

[Jarl]

Give me break to relate Viking era with homosexualism . This is pure cultural relativism nonsense of a wrong interpretation of history supported by liberal movements openly insulting the Scandinavian/Northern European heritage and its people.

LoooooL! By Tina Lauritsen and Ole Thirup Kastholm Hansen??? Those pervy, jokey Danes! Greek homos, Police homos, Nazi homos... now its Viking homos! When will the bullshit end???