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Titel
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The logotype of the National Historical Museum, Sweden (Historiska museet)
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Beskrivning
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The motive with an eight-legged horse and a rider is taken from a Viking Age picture stone from Gotland in Sweden. The horse is Sleipner, who appears in the Old Norse mythology as Odin’s horse. On his back is a fallen warrior being taken by to Valhalla, where dead warriors can feast in eternity. The warrior has a sword by his side, the handle sticking up and looking like an unmistakable phallus. Sleipner was an unusual horse. His eight legs symbolize his abilities to gallop faster than the wind, across land and water, in the air and between different parts of the mythological world. Sleipner also had some queer acquaintances. His owner, Odin, was one of the most unstraight figure in the Old Norse mythology. He could change shapes, e.g into animals, other genders and figures, and he was well-versed in seidr, the practice of divination, sorcery and magic. These skills sometimes required cross-dressing as well as mind-altering substances and techniques. Sleipner was born by Loke, a male half-giant/Old Norse god who at one point transformed himself into an attractive mare to distract the horse Svadilfare from performing some unwanted deeds. Sleipner was the result of this meeting. Loke was not far behind Odin as one of the most unstraight figures in the Old Norse mythology, being a trickster able to change shapes and even being able to give birth. At a closer look the logotype of the National Historical Museum in Sweden carries queer connotations and is rather unstraight!
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Alternate Description
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Because where you least expect it, queerness may seep through. In this case a museum logotype happens to include a figure with rather unstraight connections and connotations.
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Identifierare
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SE_UNSTRAIGHT_125
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Typ
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Autre
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Other
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Åtkomsträttigheter
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accessible to public
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Status
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completed
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Redigerat datum
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2015-08-13T20:04:02+02:00
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Skapat datum
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2013-01-07T21:18:00+01:00
