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Unique Viking Grave Ship Hidden Beneath a Burial Mound Reveals Funeral of Viking Royalty
Open the Youtube video The Gjellestad Viking Ship was found near Halden ... which destroyed the upper part of the hull and the funeral chamber, as per ScienceAlert. The burial offerings could ...
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How Vikings Stored Their Bread And Why It Worked
Samples of Viking bread found at an archaeological site in Birka, Sweden, are thought to have been baked in the funeral pyres ...
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How do you get to Viking Valhalla?
Burial ships would be covered with mounds of earth or set alight in funeral pyres. An account of a Viking chieftain's burial in 9th century Russia describes animals and even a slave woman being ...