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Viking graves are evidence that burial was not only transport to an afterworld but a public act of remembering the life and achievements of the dead.
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Funeral
Jiang treats Viking funerals as central institutions of historical memory: elaborate, communal, sacrificial events that made the dead person's story part of the community.
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Jiang treats Viking funerals as central institutions of historical memory: elaborate, communal, sacrificial events that made the dead person's story part of the community.
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Jiang hypothesizes that the sacrificed slave girl in Ibn Fadlan's funeral account was the deceased chieftain's lover or quasi-wife, not an ordinary enslaved woman.
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Jiang reads the funeral sacrifice as highly choreographed ritual rather than chaotic violence, with each participant following a script that gives the event communal meaning.
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The ship-burning and sacrifice celebrate the chieftain and implant his achievements into communal memory because everyone participates in the funeral.
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"believes and what most actually anthropologists believe is to be human is to ask these three questions. Where do we come from? Why are..."
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"...In fact what's really interesting for us is to appreciate that funerals were the most important aspect of Viking society. It's what brought the..."
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"...And as an honored guest the Vikings invited him to a funeral of a deceased chieftain or king. Now there are certain things about..."
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"...matter because this is the only written record of a Viking funeral from this time. Okay? So we have absolutely no choice in the..."
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"...him. Alright? So this is really confusing for us. It's a funeral and they're having sex with the woman who is about to be..."
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"Why? Okay. Here's the logic. Remember the Iliad. Okay? In the Iliad the entire story begins with a problem. The problem is that Agamemnon..."
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"Alright? Now Agamemnon has lost face so he says to Achilles fine I will return the girl that I love more than anything else..."
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"These intoxicating drinks are often psychedelics. Okay? So the psychedelics are meant to enhance her visuals. Okay? Now she's singing. Before the old woman..."
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"Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Alright? So..."
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"...implanting his memory into the community because everyone participates in his funeral the man his memory is now part of the community's for his..."
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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