Almost everything we have about the Scandinavian people of that time frame is distorted through time and religion and the simple challenge of turning a story in

Almost everything we have about the Scandinavian people of that time frame is distorted through time and religion and the simple challenge of turning a story into a song. So, to believe that they engaged in this complicated performative death ritual, that by all reasonable understanding of human anatomy wouldn't have even worked that way it's portrayed, it seems to make it a simple call to say it's bullshit and never happened.