Sword at his side, the so-called Young Warrior is among the thousand-year-old discoveries in a newfound cemetery in Poland, a new study says. Photograph courtesy S. Gronek
Sword at his side, the so-called Young Warrior is among the thousand-year-old discoveries in a newfound cemetery in Poland, a new study says. Photograph courtesy S. Gronek
Conan!
See your enemies driven before you!
I guess its very possible in those times that the woman was killed to be buried with the warrior for the afterlife....
Reality Ping
This is about an actual Viking burial - unlike the one you keep fantasizing about happening in 1700.
Young Warrior meets Old Viking. They youngling lost;end of story.
The women are another tail, for another day.
Buried just below the Young Warrior -- probably at the same time -- Buko said-is a woman in her early 20s who may have met a similarly violent end. Though evidence is scanty, Buko guesses she was killed to be buried with the man, "because it's very hard to suppose she died at the same moment as the warrior." No, actually he was her swordbearer. He was killed to be buried with the woman, the sea serpent got away...
My Uncle Ole...
I read the whole thing on National Geo and got to thinking.
Maybe the warrior isn’t just someone close to King Sviatopolk the Accursed. Maybe the body IS Sviatopolk the Accursed.
After all, he was buried in Poland. Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk!
is this that odd? Harald III spent considerable time in Novgorod before and ofter going to Constantinople, and brought his first wife from there. One wonders if these people were related to his travels in some way.
I’ve read an account of a Viking female slave being sacrificed to be sent off to Valhalla with her master. Supposedly, she volunteered for the honor.
