@Archatgs @Rachel5742 Cf the burials at Vendel, Sweden; links to various ex here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_burial …
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@caitlinrgreen @Archatgs @aethelflaedfan Just read an extract and feeling rather sorry for the slave girl who had to follow her dead master! -
@Rachel5742@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan extract of book of Ibn Fadlan, about Volga Vikings? -
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@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan Yes...drugged raped and butchered..rather glad I live in 21st century Britain! -
@Rachel5742 @Archatgs @aethelflaedfan Agreed :( Think lives pretty dreadful eg Ibn Fadlan (https://www.academia.edu/1764468/Dirhams_for_slaves._Investigating_the_Slavic_slave_trade_in_the_tenth_century …)pic.twitter.com/ZRdRlWlp6q
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@caitlinrgreen@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan did A-Saxons cremate woman w/ dead man? -
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@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan Assume cremation more common in pre and non-Christian cultures then largely replaced by E-W burials -
@Rachel5742 @Archatgs @aethelflaedfan To a degree, though 'flight from cremation' in Anglo-Saxon England is pre-conversion... -
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@caitlinrgreen@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan I could not read the content of the link. but what you wrote Caitlin is very important bc if > -
@caitlinrgreen@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan>Only Volga Viks cremated, in this case they took this habit from Turks tribes. Vasily Bartold in> -
@caitlinrgreen@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan>in 1 of his books, said that Turks, before Islam cremated. -
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@caitlinrgreen@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan so can we say Volga Vikings did not borrow that habit from Volga Turks? -
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@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan Most probably not :) Indeed, boat-cremations in Scand go back to Iron Age, see https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BdhDM6Qcl1IC&pg=PA414#v=onepage&q&f=false … -
@caitlinrgreen@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan So it is an old culture in Scandinavia, also Volga Turks in that time stop cremations, but isn't> -
@caitlinrgreen@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan >strange that Volga Vikings kept that Culture to so late time? -
@Archatgs No, it survives until that era in Scandinavia etc :)
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