Tag: burials
Freyja’s Cats: Perspectives on Recent Viking Age Finds in Þegjandadalur North Iceland
With evidence from the Oseberg ship burial, other sites and historical accounts, the Ingiríðarstaðir cat potentially holds clues to an elite fertility cult of Freyja in Iceland.
Archaeologists find 13th century burial site in Estonia
“We can only do guesswork right now, but we think that these people were adherents to a natural religion who had only lately adopted Christianity. It seems that men adopted the new religion more easily than women, or perhaps women simply held on more to traditional rites.
