Yr 8 PPT on Viking Burials - includes case study of Oseberg Ship

1. Viking Burials

2. Viking Burial Customs
• How do we know about Viking burial customs?
– Archaeology - rune stones, burial mounds, artefacts
– Written accounts Icelandic sagas, accounts by
observers such as Ibn Fadlan
• Variety of burial customs
– Cremation
– Burial in ground (inhumation)

6. Grave Robbers & The Walking Dead
• Haugbui (from haugr meaning
"howe" or "barrow")
• Aptrgangr (lit. "after-goer," or
"one who walks after death")
• Draugr (“ghost”, sometimes
land-draugs and sea-draugs)