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> On this site researchers have found detailed similarities between two graves that were built hundreds of years apart Vikings may have been influenced by the
by helsinkiandrew 4y ago
> On this site researchers have found detailed similarities between two graves that were built hundreds of years apart
Vikings may have been influenced by the Romans, but burials have followed remarkably similar patterns for thousands of years all over the world with no influence from outside:
The dead are often buried with items to help them in an afterlife - food, money or something to trade to help the journey.
With items that were significant to them or their role in their life - jewellery, weapons, tools.
And are often laid out straight in 'best' clothes, relatives hold vigil over the body until burial/cremation etc.
We also base burials on the burials we've seen - so is it strange that they build tombstones like the old (Roman) one? In the same way that Egyptian rulers wanted a pyramid like their predecessor?
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- notart666 4y agoIt's a tradition that was carried over from the vegetarian guard often recruited from the nords due to reaching their population limit early, they would often journey south to work in Roman controlled regions though it's different in how it was adapted just like how most groups take in traditions and beliefs from things they've seen elsewhere. It's not really indicative of anything really.
- dboreham 4y agoAlthough a vegetarian guard sounds intriguing (but not as cool as a Vegan Guard), probably this was the Varangian Guard.
- staticautomatic 4y agoThe Varangian guard were in Constantinople. So kinda sorta “Roman-controlled” but not exactly Rome.
- notart666 4y agoWell not exactly it was throughout Roman controlled territories throughout hundreds of years not just a single place. Often times mercenaries and raider groups. In places like the France especially. Many settlements and colonies were established and in places like north Germany it's predominately still Scandinavian. And I don't mean Denmark but Hamburg. It's where Hitler got his whole rhetoric about the superior Nordic race and the inferior slavs even though he was from Austria and Germanic not Scandinavian.
- barry-cotter 4y agoHow was it “kinda sorta”? They were the direct, unbroken, legal and institutional continuance of the Roman Empire.
- tokai 4y agoNo its exactly Rome. That is what they would have called themselves and they had the provenance to back it up.
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- Mikeb85 4y agoConstantinople was part of the Roman Empire (as the name implies, it was 'founded' by the Roman emperor Constantine) and considered itself the Roman empire until it fell.
- staticautomatic 4y agoSure. I just mean that if you didn’t know better, you might conclude from the parent comment that the Varangian guard were geographically based in Rome.
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