Hearth & Horn

There's a lot of queer content in the Eddas which can be reclaimed in a positive light fairly easily. Even though what it reveals abour actual Viking society is more ambivalent, and like, ideas like Odin Allfather having bisexual behavior or learning both women and men's magic probably says less about "queerness was ok because their top god did it" and more like "queerness was a source of anxiety and unsettlingness and that's why it's associated with a god whose remit is otherworldly". Like, we know these things about Odin from moments in the Edda where he's being insulted for being a queer. So there's a tension there which is interesting as a historian. Though as a modern queer person, there's so much to love as well.