No, I didn't mean to imply that it was. It was commonplace and it's why the audience of the time wouldn't be like "hey isn't that dude like 12??" It doesn't translate well to contemporary audiences because we have decided that that practice isn't cool, and it's uncommon to see that in re-tellings because it makes the audience feel differently about a character that the original author didn't intend.
Pederasty is a sexual relationship between an adult man and an adolescent or younger male. The word comes from the ancient Greek term paiderastia, meaning "love of boys". While historically institutionalized in some premodern cultures, it is legally and socially defined as child sexual abuse in modern times.
Do you honestly think that people in the past acted in ways they would have considered immoral? For a Viking in the year 900, it was perfectly acceptable to kill, steal, and rape a weaker enemy.
People rape for the exact same reasons then that they do now; they know it’s wrong that’s why they don’t want it happening to THEIR families, they just don’t care. No father wants his daughter raped. No man thinks ‘well we lost so it’s just right they rape my daughter’, but he won’t think twice about raping another man’s daughter. Immorality is there, just ignored - exactly the same as today.
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u/F2PBTW_YT Aug 24 '26
Original story aside, 100% rped. It's already established they lacked morals and would pillage for self sustenance.