Viking Death Rituals Research Paper

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Viking Death Rituals Norse death rituals or Viking death rituals are the customs that Vikings used to honor their deceased. The Vikings believed that when they died, everyone went to one of two places, “The two realms in Norse mythology that were commonly associated with the religious practices of funerals and burials were Valhalla and Helheim.” (Legendsand…). The Vikings did two things with their dead, they cremated their dead and buried them, and in some cases both were done. Many warriors were buried where they died on the battlefield and other times they were cremated on a funeral pyre. Very rarely the body of a noble was cremated, his ashes put in an urn then placed in a longboat and sent to sea. The two ideas of heaven created

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