Viking graves
Scandinavian burial sites
Viking graves are burial sites of Scandinavian seafarers from roughly the 8th to 11th centuries.
The term usually evokes ship burials, where the dead were interred in vessels along with weapons, jewelry, and sometimes sacrificed animals or servants.
These graves have yielded much of what we know about Norse culture: Archaeologists discovered a Viking grave containing an intact sword.
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- burial moundEarth piled over graves
- moundHeaped earth formation
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- ship burialInterment within a vessel
Norse · Norse mythology · warrior · warrior class · Valhalla · runes · artifacts · barrow · longship · sword · shield · battle axe · pyre · funeral · funeral pyre · Odin · hoard · skeleton
Viking gravesEgyptian pyramids
Monumental royal tombs, Nile region
Great Pyramid of Giza · Egyptian tombs · Taj Mahal · mausoleums · unmarked graves
Viking gravesmummification
Preserving bodies after death
sky burials · sea burials · green burials · plastination · cremation urns
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