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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 20, 2019, 06:47:23 am

Title: Hurstwic: Life After Death in the Viking Age
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 20, 2019, 06:47:23 am

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1lDLkay8IQ#)

Title: Re: Hurstwic: Life After Death in the Viking Age
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 20, 2019, 12:03:25 pm

Interesting note for today's young wanna be Vikings on the afterlife @ appx 33:04.

Notice the Oseburg ship burial (1200 years ago)

The ship was Buried, underground.

And it was still tied with a giant cable to a huge mooring boulder.

The message?

It and it's inhabitants (2 women) were not going Anywhere, ever again.

This hole in the ground was it. The very last, ultimate stop.

Doesn't bode well for "Looking Forward to Eternity in Valhalla".

Title: Re: Hurstwic: Life After Death in the Viking Age
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 20, 2019, 12:43:13 pm

But it does shed light on the ease with which Viking age Iceland converted to Christianity.

They simply put it to a vote at their yearly Supreme Court gathering: the Althing.

And since Valhalla was a warrior's paradise, it held little for a huge number of the Viking women.

It wasn't quite that simple in Scandinavia, but it was still fairly rapid.

Happened over the course of a generation or three, not hundreds of years.