Hyper-Masculine behavior among Iron Age Scandinavian men
A recurring topic at TOO is what northwest Europeans were like before Christianity and before modernity. This excerpt is from Lotte Hedeager, Iron Age Myth and Materiality: An Archeology of Scandinavia, AD 400–1000 (London: Routledge, 2011), 115ff. It paints a picture of a hyper-masculine, completely militarized society in which male sexual penetration was a marker of power, […]