Oseberg Viking ship
Viking Age boat burials: a history of research
Paper by Luna Polinelli
Given online by the Iceland Society of Archaeologists on February 3, 2022
Abstract: Boats form a subset of grave goods increasingly found in Viking Age burials, which have been the subject of much scholarly debate, especially from the 19th century onwards. Since the Middle Ages, it was generally known that Scandinavian people used to be buried in boats before the Christianisation, since mentions of this custom are found in the Icelandic sagas and in ibn Fadlan’s account.
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