On request from entity I'm making this thread so that the links I posted in Lateshift have a more permanent home. Feel free to add links and use as a space for discussion and reflection around the topic of gender and sexuality in Norse trad literature and practice.

Mordan Carnival posted this to an initial question of mine about the gender/sexuality of Odin:

"Odin seems to have been regarded as queer by a lot of heathens, at least
at certain points in history. In the Lokasenna, Odin accuses Loki of
having given birth (which was true); Loki retaliates by pointing out
Odin's practicing seidh, a "womanly" form of magic. There's plenty more
-- this article by Diana L. Paxson is a good'un. http://www.seidh.org/articles/sex-status-seidh/"

After asking an acquaintance of mine who's a specialist in the field of gender & religion (mostly Graeco-Roman I *think*), I then posted the following:

"On the topic of Odin and genderbending I was recommended a couple of
Norwegian researchers. Britt Solli wrote "Seid, Myths, Shamanism and
Gender in the Viking Era." - more on that here: http://eng.kilden.forskningsradet.no/c52778/nyhet/vis.html?tid=53502"

"I was also pointed to this chap Bjørn Bandlien - http://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/people/aca/bbandlie/index.html
whose doctoral thesis has the juicy title "Man or Monster: Negotiations
of Masculinity in Old Norse Society", which unfortunately isn't online,
but Googling the title did bring up this pdf by a different author - http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sqs/sqs2_08/sqs2_2008raninen.pdf
- titled "Queer Vikings? Transgression of gender and same-sex
encounters in the Late Iron Age and early medieval Scandinavia", which
seems to merit a read."

and then this

"Old homepage for Solli here with literature list, some in English but mostly in Norwegian http://folk.uio.no/britsol/Brit_Solli/"

So, that's a start.