The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

in a tree. We also have clear examples of mythological narratives on the stones, such as a possible valkyrie with a drinking hor ...

CHAPTER NINETEEN DYING AND THE DEAD: VIKING AGE MORTUARY BEHAVIOUR Neil Price In his country Óðinn instituted such laws as had b ...

‘country’ to which it allegedly applied. This does not mean that every part of his description is inaccurate, but instead we sho ...

(Eldjárn 2000 ), while in England there are few burials under mounds (Halsall 2000 ). In the eastern areas of Viking expansion, ...

most cases the bones of the humans, and sometimes the animals, have been retrieved from the ashes, sorted and cleaned before bei ...

purpose but presumably relating to the extended rituals of the burial, discussed further below. In general burials seem to have ...

cargo bodies of wagons. Many different body postures are found, though the dead are most often laid out either supine or slightl ...

graves have been interpreted as the burials of battle casualties or deaths otherwise incurred on campaign. CHAMBER BURIALS A pro ...

(Price 2002 : 132 – 9 ). Remains of slim iron chains around the bodies suggest that the corpses were tied to the back of a chair ...

Europe, located on the Île de Groix off the south coast of Brittany (Müller-Wille 1976 ; Price 1989 ). The ships have usually be ...

the Oseberg burial. Originally thought to have been aged about sixty–seventy and twenty-five–forty respectively when they died, ...

and has (or says she has) a series of visions. Ibn Fadlan states specifically that the girl volunteers to accompany her owner in ...

the location of the earlier grave must therefore have been carefully remembered. Within the boat lay a man and a woman laid out ...

One further element of this extended funerary behaviour may be the practice of so-called grave-robbing. While clearly some buria ...

interventions were very considerable in nature, such as the cutting into of the chambers in the Vestfold ship burials. Not enoug ...

for its disposal in this way, individual but again part of a wider system. This too would fit with the idea of burials as compon ...

Gansum, T. ( 2004 ) Hauger som konstruksjoner – arkeologiske forventninger gjennom 200 år (GOTARC. Gothenburg archaeological the ...

Stylegar, F.-A. ( 2005 ) ‘Kammergraver fra vikingtiden i Vestfold’, Fornvännen, 100 : 161 – 77. ——( 2007 ) ‘The Kaupang cemeteri ...

Language, literature and art CHAPTER TWENTY THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES IN THE VIKING AGE Michael P. Barnes GERMANIC AND SCANDINA ...

VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIAN North Germanic, just as North-West Germanic and ‘Common Germanic’ before it, is unlikely to have been a ...