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Ergi
Ergi (noun) and argr (adjective) are two Old Norse terms of insult, denoting effeminacy or other unmanly behavior. ''Argr'' (also ''ragr'') is "unmanly" and ''ergi'' is "unmanliness"; the terms have cognates in other Germanic languages such as ''earh'', ''earg'', ''arag'', ''arug'', and so on.
==Ergi in the Viking Age==
To accuse another man of being ''argr'' was called ''scolding'' (see "nīþ"), and thus a legal reason to challenge the accuser in holmgang. If holmgang was refused by the accused, he could be outlawed (full outlawry), as this refusal proved that the accuser was right and the accused was ''argr'' (= unmanly, cowardly). If the accused fought successfully in ''holmgang'' and had thus proven that he was not ''argr'', the ''scolding'' was considered what was in Old English called ''eacan'', an unjustified, severe defamation, and the accuser had to pay the offended party full compensation. The Gray Goose Laws states:
The practice of seiðr (sorcery) was considered ''ergi'' in the Viking Age, and in Icelandic accounts and medieval Scandinavian laws, the term ''argr'' had connotations of a receptive, passive role of a freeborn man during homosexual intercourse. There are no written records of how the northern people thought of homosexuality before this conversion. The Historian Greenberg points out:
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