for its disposal in this way, individual but again part of a wider system. This too would
fit with the idea of burials as components in a narrative, significant objects as the visual
markers that identify a ‘character’ to an audience – the latter now being that of our own
time.
The Viking ways of death were not those of the twenty-first century, but they
nonetheless contained within them the human universals of loss, separation, memory
and the (un)certain concern for a possible life beyond.
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