Motif
Burial with equipment, arms, and vehicle
burial_with_equipment_arms_and_vehicle
A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
norse
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The Story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga THE NORTHMEN IN ICELAND. / SUPERSTITIONS OF THE RACE. / SOCIAL PRINCIPLES. / DAILY LIFE IN NJAL'S TIME.; lines 892-946 confidence: high
The body is laid in a cairn with goods and arms, sometimes sitting, sometimes in a ship, and inside a timber or stone chamber covered by earth and gravel.
The body is described as placed in a cairn with goods and arms, sometimes in a sitting posture and sometimes in a ship.
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