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I have heard of boat burials, where the body is placed in a boat, thogh not necessarily set adrift, just placed within. The obvious (possibly too obvious) inter
by tempguy9999 7y ago
I have heard of boat burials, where the body is placed in a boat, thogh not necessarily set adrift, just placed within. The obvious (possibly too obvious) interpretation is that it's the vehicle to take the person to the next world. Based on nothing at all I wonder if this is a symbolic form of a boat burial.
- hprotagonist 7y agohttps://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/lit/beowulf/prelude/ https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/lit/beowulf/prelude/ for one of the more famous depictions in literature.
- tempguy9999 7y agoI wasn't thinking of ship burials (though thanks for the beowulf pointer, I didn't know that, and in returns here's an allegedly eyewitness account of one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_funeral#Ibn_Fadlan%27s_account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_funeral#Ibn_Fadlan%27s_...), but something much smaller and older. There was a report of a discovered boat burial on doggerland, on land (before doggerland flooded. That would have been at the end of the last ice age). I can't find it now.
- hprotagonist 7y agoPossibly Sutton Hoo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo I know about the neolithic villages currently under silt in the english channel, but that's about it.
- tempguy9999 7y agoSutton hoo is saxon IIRC. No, the villages/communities you mentioned are the ones that were drowned when the ice melted - before that the UK was much larger and joined to the continent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland. That was the boat burial area I meant. I did dig but can't find it, sorry.