Pagan Viking views on sexuality were more akin to pagan Roman views, it’s true (though arguably more extreme; Julius Caesar was called “every woman’s man and every man’s woman” and “the Queen of Bithynia” in his day, and so far as we know he never got to kill anyone over it). By the end of the end of the Viking age, post Christianisation, that may have been more or less true. But either way, it’s safe to say that the Vikings would not approve of a relationship between two men.
The meme certainly suggests without any other context that the Vikings would disapprove of homophobia, and that seems to me to just not be the case.
Ok? I’m not saying they weren’t homophobic, I’m saying their specific flavor of homophobia wouldn’t clash with the depiction in that specific meme
Pagan Viking views on sexuality were more akin to pagan Roman views, it’s true (though arguably more extreme; Julius Caesar was called “every woman’s man and every man’s woman” and “the Queen of Bithynia” in his day, and so far as we know he never got to kill anyone over it). By the end of the end of the Viking age, post Christianisation, that may have been more or less true. But either way, it’s safe to say that the Vikings would not approve of a relationship between two men.
The meme certainly suggests without any other context that the Vikings would disapprove of homophobia, and that seems to me to just not be the case.