#WritingPride 6/7 In #Blank, the Gullaldrsguðir live in something of a queer utopia where gender is a trivial non-issue and sexuality is as fluid as quicksilver.

We don't see them until much later in the series, once we start learning more about the enigmatic anti-hero Skuggabaldur—son of Baldur, Gluskabe, and Malsumis—one of the Gullaldrsguð.

Skuggabaldur's own provenance is interesting because both Baldur and Gluskabe met as male. After Ragnarok, they settled the Arctic to start a family. Gluskabe grew a great tree to serve as a womb for the child born from their love. While Gluskabe and Baldur fed the tree, Gluskabe's twin brother snuck into the garden in Gluskabe's shadow and fed the tree as well.

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