#male and female magic users even in the early medieval sagas

[sinni-ok-sessi]

perks of having the house to myself: no one else has to put up with me shrieking about simplistic interpretations of Viking Age gender and sexuality in this book

#you... you can't just say 'i would argue that in shamanistic religions gender is frequently fluid' and NOT CITE ANYTHING #i would argue that all the sagas were written by one bored dude in the westfjords #evidence? nah. I am simply going on Vibes #and to say that the homophobic/misogynistic 'so and so is behaving like a woman' insults mean so and so has 'switched gender'... jfc #I just want to read about weave types in exhaustive detail. i don't *need* all this 'women weave and weaving is Totes Magical #and men feared it because Magic Is For Girls' stuff #nevermind the fact that like 95% of early modern witchcraft accusations in Iceland were against men and there are roughly equal numbers of #male and female magic users even in the early medieval sagas #(book is The Valkyrie's Loom by Michelle Hayeur Smith and i don't Hate it. I just occasionally need to scream)