Thus, it is apparent that "ergi" of a "níðingr" was strongly connoted not only with sorcery, unmanliness, weakness, and effeminacy but also especially with lecherousness or sexual perversion in the view of Old Scandinavian people during the Early and High Middle Ages. "Ergi" of females was considered as excessive lecherousness bordering raging madness, "ergi" of males as perversity, effeminacy and the passive role within same-sex intercourse between men, while an active role of a man, who had been included into same-sex intercourse, was not to be tinged by "ergi", "ragr", "argr" or "níð".