Wonder where this idea of a Viking burial being this one single method came from. Burial mounds were quite common among the Norse, though perhaps the "viking"

Wonder where this idea of a Viking burial being this one single method came from. Burial mounds were quite common among the Norse, though perhaps the "viking" part of it is important here, because presumably we're only talking about bodies from people who perished while far from home. In any case, there's no mention of this method on the wikipedia page for Norse funerals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_funeral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_funeral