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Yr 8 PPT on Viking Burials - includes case study of Oseberg Ship

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Viking Burials

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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)

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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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