Frithcast Episode 91 - Funerary Customs Then and Now

Episode 91 – Funerary Customs then and now

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

 

 

Objects in the Rear View Mirror – Meatloaf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPMv9zJ1LE

Oseberg: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/

Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/sutton-hoo-and-europe

Scar boat burial http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/scarboat/index.html

Gokstad boat burial https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/gokstad/

BJ581 - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/viking-warrior-women-reassessing-birka-chamber-grave-bj581/7CC691F69FAE51DDE905D27E049FADCD

Bratislava https://www.visitbratislava.com/

Brassica: the mustard family: https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-plants-in-the-family-Brassicaceae-2004620

Prittlewell Prince https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/new-secrets-from-prittlewell-reconstructing-a-burial-chamber-fit-for-a-prince.htm

Ibd Fadlan’s account of a Rus chieftains burial: https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199906/among.the.norse.tribes-the.remarkable.account.of.ibn.fadlan.htm

Anglo-Saxon memorial inscriptions in runes: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/frag/9772151.0006.004/--runes-and-commemoration-in-anglo-saxon-england?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Guide to what you can place in a coffin: https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/help-resources/arranging-a-funeral/funeral-guides/what-can-you-put-in-a-coffin

And some funeral alternatives: https://www.funeralinspirations.co.uk/burial/#Live_and_die_majestically

Memorial at St Mary Axe, London:https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tomb-of-the-unknown-london-girl

Weapons ritually destroyed in graves: https://www.medievalists.net/2019/05/charisma-violence-and-weapons-the-broken-swords-of-the-vikings/

Here are modern pics of burial recreations done by a viking reenactment group : https://www.facebook.com/andrimners/posts/we-are-dead-serious-about-reenactment-2017-andrimners-hemtagarethese-pictures-ar/1660523900917013/

Regia Anglorum did a take on what modern grave goods might look like: https://www.facebook.com/regiaanglorum/posts/who-says-you-cant-take-it-with-you-so-much-about-what-we-know-concerning-the-ear/1434434423428532/

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