Queen compiles the HVM ruralmoids she saw on Tinder, spanning 4 months. Lots of cringe and moidmoments inside

Actually, Norse Pagan believed in pretty progressive (for religion) ideals. Women(free women, meaning non-slave) are to be believed about assault and any man who disgraces his wife or lover by either assaulting or cheating on her without her permission is subject to public disgrace and she's entitled to his worldly possessions should she desire it. People of other races are welcome guests, but other religions are to be scorned, individuals who feel that their gender mismatches their soul is treated as their preferred type, etc. Of the 'hate people of color/gender' religions, paganism is one of the lesser ones. The swastika was actually a Norse symbol for peace and purity before nazis took it and ruined it.

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[–]Sn_rk 19 points 4 months ago

Almost none of this is true. Having concubines as a man was considered normal while female cheating carried severe penalties up to straight up murder. Men were allowed to assault their wives as much as they wanted as long as it wasn't in public, in which case she would be able to ask for a divorce and a minor fine - but since women had no right to speak as witness in court it had to be brought up by another man. In case of divorce the woman got nothing but their dowry and the money her husband paid to marry her (without asking for her consent too, how progressive!) and returned into the custody of her father or the closest living male relative.

Norse society was also extremely xenophobic, having dark or at least darker skin or dark eyes continually being held up as signs of bad character in literature and violating gender norms was seen as something incredibly negative that in most cases would cause you to end up being ostracised (and since you already mentioned divorce: failing to wear clothing appropiate to your gender would be grounds for just that). Amusingly, for all the intolerance the one thing they actually seemed to be tolerant of were other religions, as pagan polytheists are wont to do. Also, while the Swastika shows up in early Germanic art sometimes, we don't know what it meant beyond the ornamental function, the whole "peace and purity" thing is from the southeast Asian Manji.

I honestly don't get why people insist on whitewashing such a society, to be honest, other than those who romanticise it and want to return to some sort of retrotopia, which it certainly wasn't because it sucked.