• whoops@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Sure, but pop culture has confounded going viking with Norse culture at large.

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        9 months ago

        It bugs me that we only know the post-Christianization version of their religion. Hence Odin getting hung on a not-cross

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          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.

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            The history of religion is basically every religion accusing every other religion of gay orgies and eating babies