Viking Noblewoman Buried in Boat Alongside Her Dog

Archaeology Magazine ^ | June 9, 2025 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Excavated burial containing the skeletal remains of a Viking woman, Senja Island, Norway

The Arctic University Museum of Norway

[SunkenCiv]

[SteveH]

a girl and her dog... maybe a good title for a short story

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Maybe they buried the dog with her human.

It was a very special dog.

[DAC21]

So in other words the dog was most likely slaughtered to be laid at the feet of the women.

[jerod]

Good idea Harlan. LOL

[jerod]

Poor dog... Just because it’s master died, it had to die? The PETA people should be right on top of this.

[READINABLUESTATE]

“So in other words the dog was most likely slaughtered to be laid at the feet of the women.”
I think it was common to send the dead to Valhalla with their prized possessions.
Had to pay the boatman.

[fidelis]

"I think it was common to send the dead to Valhalla with their prized possessions. Had to pay the boatman."

Boatman: "OK, lady, nobody gets into Vahalla without something to pay for the boat trip. What'ya got"

Viking woman: "Well, I have this dog. It's dead, but it's gotta be worth something, right?"

Boatman: "So you're offering me a dead dog to break my back rowing you across. You're not exactly a slim maiden, if you know what I mean,"

Viking woman: "That's all I have! He was a good dog. Never chewed my sandals."

Boatman: "Sorry lady, ain't runnin' no charity here. Even in Vahalla we got standards, you know. Go back an haunt somebody until you can bring back some Saxon loot or something."

[BenLurkin]

[Beowulf9]

Yeah. I was just having horrible thoughts about that.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Did they kill the dog just so that they could bury it too?

I never liked the idea of killing a dog because its owner died.

[ckilmer]

for their kings they would do human sacrifices—usually one of his concubines.

[waterhill]

in other words the dog was most likely slaughtered to be laid at the feet of the women.

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Yeah something like that.

[Fuzz]

‘ So in other words the dog was most likely slaughtered to be laid at the feet of the women.’

Or a murder suicide.

[waterhill]

In some cultures the horses and women got whacked as well.

[TigersEye]

So in other words the dog was most likely slaughtered to be laid at the feet of the women.

Weird isn't it? The Vikings were mostly peaceful.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Weird isn't it? The Vikings were mostly peaceful.

Uh.... yeah... sure....

(you are not going to catch me again!)

[TigersEye]

heh heh

You know, if today’s “journalists” were reporting 80 years ago on WWII they would have said “the bombing of Dresden was mostly peaceful.”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Graveyards being very peaceful.