.@caitlinrgreen @Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan did Anglo-Saxons burn their deads, in any period of their history in Britain?
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@Archatgs
@Rachel5742 @aethelflaedfan Both ASs+Vikings cremated, & some evidence for boat-cremations in Scand eg https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hEawXSP4AVwC&pg=PA152#v=onepage&q&f=false …2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
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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!1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@Rachel5742@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan extract of book of Ibn Fadlan, about Volga Vikings?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Archatgs
@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan Yes...drugged raped and butchered..rather glad I live in 21st century Britain!1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @Rachel5742
@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?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Archatgs
@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan Assume cremation more common in pre and non-Christian cultures then largely replaced by E-W burials2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Rachel5742
@Rachel5742 @Archatgs @aethelflaedfan To a degree, though 'flight from cremation' in Anglo-Saxon England is pre-conversion...2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaedfan @Archatgs Realise this is not an exact science but find it hard to convey in 140 characters! ;)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@Rachel5742 absolutely---nowhere near enough characters! ;)
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@caitlinrgreen Do you think we could negotiate an increase? ;)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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