viking burials
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Yr 8 PPT on Viking Burials - includes case study of Oseberg Ship
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Viking Burials
Viking Burial Customs
• How do we know about Viking burial customs?– Archaeology - rune stones, burial mounds, artefacts– Written accounts Icelandic sagas, accounts by
observers such as Ibn Fadlan
• Variety of burial customs– Cremation– Burial in ground (inhumation)
Grave Robbers & The Walking Dead
• Haugbui (from haugr meaning "howe" or "barrow")
• Aptrgangr (lit. "after-goer," or "one who walks after death")
• Draugr (“ghost”, sometimes land-draugs and sea-draugs)
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