Iceland did not consider homosexuality a crime as such, but attempting to avoid marriage because of it was illegal. In short, society demanded that every member of it should produce children first and foremost, what other relationships there were besides that were a private matter.
In mythology, Loki as an example, is definitely bisexual and a shapeshifter. He can change species and gender at his will — or should we say, their?
Specifically, Loki turns into a mare, has a sexual encounter with a giant’s stallion and gives birth, as attested in Gylfaginning, the first part of Prose Edda, dating back to the 13th century.
The author of Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson wrote that ‘Loki had had such dealings with Svaðilfari (the stallion) that sometime later he bore a foal’.
Both the Poetic and the Prose Edda clarify that the foal will grow to become Odin’s eight-legged steed Sleipnir.
It is safe to say Loki and Svaðilfari are same-sex parents.
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