Notes Year 8 Viking Burials Handout Ibn Fadlan Slide 1 Burial ground what shape do you see here?

ere? Importance of ships in Viking culture Some debate - Stone ships early Viking burial custom or was it burial practice of poor people who could not afford to be buried in a real ship Stones ships in grave fields such as this one at Lindholm Hje

in Denmark. 150 stone ships here

Intersecting ship shapes family members buried next to other family members so ship stones intersect or are buried Largest stone ship in 170m long at Jellinge, Denmark. Mostly destroyed now at Jellinge. Some vocab grave good: name given to items buried with the dead person to help them in the afterlife barrow/burial mound/borro/haugr: large earth mound covering inhumed (buried) body, cairn: pile of stones raised over something or to commemorate something Slide2 Did Vikings push burning ships out to sea?

Ibn Fadlan records burning of a burial ship pulled up on banks of Volga (Itil) River Slide 3 Vikings also buried dead in burial mounds (barrows) Old Norse words borr and haugr meaning mound This mound at Borre near Vestfold, Norway. It is a National Park. 7 large burial mounds and 25 smaller cairns In 1852, one mound was partly destroyed when mound used as source of gravel. Rich Viking ship discovered there, Slide 4 Sometimes Vikings cremated the dead person. And then placed the ash and remains in a cremation pot. And then buried the cremation pot. Smaller mounds (cairns) at Borre were cremation burials Slide 5 Grave goods name given to items buried with the dead person to help them in the afterlife. Viking warriors often buried with their shield, sword, axe Women buried with faviourite brooch, spinning gear, jewellery Other items? Food, animals, slaves Slide 6 Example of brooches found buried in a womans grave in Hyrt, Voss, western Norway.

Remains of textiles were found preserved at the back of the brooch. Evidence of type of cloth, textile patterns, techniques in weaving, type of clothing worn Slide 7 How brooches were worn Slide 8 Map of Oseberg The Oseburg ship found near Tonsberg, near Oseberg Now housed at Oseberg Ship museum Oslo

Slide 8 and 9 On 8 August 1903, professor Gabriel Gustafson of the University of Oslo received a visit from a farmer: Knut Rom from the Lille Oseberg farm in Slagen in Vestfold. Rom had dug into a large burial mound on his farm and found what he believed was a ship. Excavated 1904. Took 21 years to dry timber, piece ship together and reconstruct ship. And prepare the artefacts Slide 10 Restored ship at the Oseberg Ship museum, Oslo Ship was burial ship of High class noble woman Queen? Thrall girl buried with her to look after her

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A variety of grave goods bed, cauldron with tripod for cooking , carved dragon heard post, clothing , jewellery What does the ship tell us? Video Viking ships, Oseberg and Gokstad ships - YouTube mins Worksheet