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The coffins of upper class women in tenth-century Denmark often contained the body of a wagon...Food and drink were usually placed in the graves. All of this indicates that the realm of the dead was reached by a journey. An element of the burial custom which today seems particularly macabre was the possibility of being buried with a companion, presumably usually a slave, killed for the burial.
— Feb 06, 2020 01:16AM
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William
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Discussing the influence of Scandinavian names and place-names in Normandy, Roesdahl reveals that Auberville derives from the Norwegian/Danish Ásbjörn, suffixed by the French 'ville'. Which means poor old Tess of the d'Urbervilles is really the heroic shield-maiden 'Tess af Ásbjörn'!!
— Feb 06, 2020 11:31AM
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In the pagan period unwanted children could be exposed to the elements and left to their fate, but Christians reacted strongly against this practice, and it was eventually banned, except in the case of deformed children.
— Feb 04, 2020 12:22AM
William
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A Spanish Arab who visited Hedeby in the tenth century recorded that both men and women used artificially produced eye make-up, and the English chronicler John of Wallingford, who, although he lived after the Viking Age, had access to older sources, relates that the Vikings' success with women was due to their having a bath on Saturdays, combing their hair and being handsomely dressed.
— Feb 02, 2020 09:16AM
