Nazis didn't even steal viking runes. They completely made them up after some crackpot says he was shown the runes by nordic ghosts in the early 1900s.

Valhalla isn't a reward though, it's a hell for those that don't enjoy battle. Here's what happens in Valhalla:

• You equip your armor and weapons
• You walk out into the courtyard
• You kill eachother
• You are resurrected
• You go to dinner
• You equip your armor and weapons
• You walk out into the courtyard
• You kill eachother

etc. etc.

It is NOT a reward. Valhalla is not heaven, it is a place that Odin puts his very specific chosen warriors that died a violent death in battle. Whether you go to Valhalla doesn't depend on you being either a good or bad person, only how you died. Odin himself will even actively intervene and make sure you lose your fight and die in battle, just because he wants you as one of his Einherjar.

Valhalla being portrayed as this big reward for good people is a bastardised version brought in by Christians.

Nooooo you’re ruining my pseudohistorical narrative!!!! REEEEE SOMBODY GET ME MY AMPHETAMINES

i like the "no Nazis in Valhalla" phrase because Valhalla is an idea, not a real thing. but let's not pretend vikings were good people just to spite Nazis. you're just doing the same mythologizing.

As someone who has a lot of Nordic tattoos it sucks that I'm lumped in with these Nazi fucks at a glance.

I'm an atheistic pagan and I fucking hate Nazis or really just bigots in general but I get treated like one by most people.

This meme format really is just playing dolly

Isn't Iran derived from aryan? Why aren't these nazi want-to bes wearing kolah namadi?

It's not just the right that engages in blatant revisionist history of Vikings.

FYI might be worth putting up a NSFW spoiler tag. That said, historically accurate meme woohoo!

Seiðr, feminine one included, was practised by Odin, and vǫlvas, which were almost always women, had enormous respect. Priesthood was primarily a female affair, but I wouldn't be surprised if mingling occurred.

A myth is that "effeminacy" in those cultures is frowned upon; instead, it is a lack of courage, to be yourself, that the earlier Germanic cultures derided heavily.

And so, Thor dressing as a gal, and Loki transforming into one, is actually super brave. The sages describe it more humorously, even, rather than insultingly.

Shit, I thought we were the best at cultural reappropriation. How did this get through? (And they like butt stuff.)