Ship burial
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A ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as a container for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave goods itself. If the ship is very small, it is called a boat grave. This style of burial was used among the Germanic peoples, particularly by Viking Age Norsemen.
A unique eye-witness account of a 10th-century ship burial among the Volga Vikings is given by Arab traveller Ibn Fadlan.
[edit] Viking Age ship burials
- Scandinavia
- Ladby - from Kerteminde on the island of Funen, Denmark[1]
- Gokstad - from Kongshaugen, Vestfold, Norway[2]
- Oseberg - from Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold, Norway[3]
- Tune - from Haugen farm on Rolvsøy in Tune, Østfold, Norway [4]
- Valsgärde - from a farm on the Fyris River, Gamla Uppsala, Sweden[5]
- Vendel - from Ottarshögen (the mound of Ohthere) in Uppland, Sweden
- Anundshög - the mound of Anund just outside Västerås in Västmanland, Sweden[6]
- British Isles
- Snape - from Snape Common in Suffolk, East Anglia, England
- Sutton Hoo - Anglo-Saxon burial site near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
- Balladoole and Knock-e-Dooney - Viking ship burials on the Isle of Man[7]
- Port an Eilean Mhòir - the mound was found in 2006 and excavated in 2011[8]
- The Scar boat burial - a Viking burial found on Sanday, one the Orkney Islands [9]
- Eastern Europe
- Salme ships - from the island of Saaremaa, Estonia
- Rurikovo Gorodishche - situated on an island on the Volkhov River near Veliky Novgorod, Russia
- Sarskoye Gorodishche - from a medieval fortified settlement in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
- Timerevo - from site near the village of Bolshoe Timeryovo, Yaroslavl, Russia
- Black Grave - from the largest burial mound in Chernihiv, Ukraine
[edit] See also
- Norse funeral
- Ímar Ua Donnubáin, legendary Irish navigator of partial Norse descent
- Stone ship
- Chariot burial (Iron Age tradition)
- Solar barge (Bronze Age tradition)
- Khufu ship (Ancient Egypt)
[edit] References
- ^ The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde
- ^ Gokstadhaugen - Artificial Mound in Norway
- ^ Osebergskipet - The Oseberg Ship, Norway
- ^ Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy
- ^ Valsgärde
- ^ Anundshög, Stoneship
- ^ Vikings on Mann
- ^ "Viking boat burial site discovered in Scottish Highlands". Channel 4 News. http://www.channel4.com/news/viking-boat-burial-site-discovered-in-scottish-highlands. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ^ The Scar Viking Boat Burial [1]
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