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62 relations: Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Anundshög, Ímar Ua Donnubáin, Öland, Østfold, Black Grave, Boxer Codex, Burial, Cairn, Chariot burial, Chernihiv, East Anglia, Estonia, Funen, Fyris, Gamla Uppsala, Germanic peoples, Gokstad Mound, Gokstad ship, Grave goods, Isle of Man, Kerteminde, Khufu ship, Ladby ship, Nabbelund, Norse funeral, Norway, Ohthere, Orkney, Oseberg Ship, Philippines, Port an Eilean Mhòir boat burial, Rolvsøy, Saaremaa, Salme ships, Sanday, Orkney, Sarskoye Gorodishche, Scar boat burial, Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Solar deity, Stone ship, Suffolk, Sutton Hoo, Sweden, Tønsberg, Timerevo, Tune ship, Tune, Norway, Uppland, Valsgärde, ..., Varangians, Västerås, Västmanland, Veliky Novgorod, Vendel, Vendel Period, Vestfold, Viking Age, Volkhov River, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast. Expand index (12 more) »
Ahmad ibn Fadlan
Ibn Fadlan (أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāšid ibn Ḥammād, 921–22) was a 10th-century Arab Muslim traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, known as his Risala ("account" or "journal") His account is most notable for providing a detailed description of the Volga Vikings, including an eyewitness account of a ship burial.
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Anundshög
Anundshög (also Anundshögen and Anunds hög) is a tumulus near Västerås in Västmanland, the largest in Sweden.
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Ímar Ua Donnubáin
Ímar Ua Donnubáin or Ivor O'Donovan, and possibly nicknamed Gilla Riabach, was a legendary and celebrated petty king, navigator, trader, and reputed necromancer of 13th century Ireland belonging to the O'Donovan family.
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Öland
Öland (known in Latin as Oelandia, and sometimes written Øland in other Scandinavian languages, and Oland internationally) is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden.
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Østfold
Østfold is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side of Oslofjord.
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Black Grave
The Black Grave (translit) is the largest burial mound (kurgan) in Chernihiv, Ukraine.
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Boxer Codex
The Boxer Codex is a manuscript written c. 1590, which contains illustrations of ethnic groups in the Philippines at the time of their initial contact with the Spaniards.
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Burial
Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground.
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Cairn
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones.
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Chariot burial
Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with his chariot, usually including his (more rarely, her) horses and other possessions.
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Chernihiv
Chernihiv (Чернігів) also known as Chernigov (p, Czernihów) is a historic city in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of the Chernihiv Oblast (province), as well as of the surrounding Chernihiv Raion (district) within the oblast.
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East Anglia
East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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Funen
Funen (Fyn), with an area of, is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy.
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Fyris
Fyrisån (the Fyris river) is a river in the Swedish province of Uppland, which passes through the city of Uppsala and ends in Lake Mälaren.
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Gamla Uppsala
Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.
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Gokstad Mound
The Gokstad Mound (Norwegian: Gokstadhaugen) is a large burial mound at Gokstad Farm in Sandefjord (formerly Sandar municipality) in Vestfold County, Norway.
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Gokstad ship
The Gokstad ship is a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway.
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Grave goods
Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are the items buried along with the body.
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Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Kerteminde
Kerteminde (nickname: Min Amandas by, i.e. My Amanda's town), is a town in central Denmark, located in Kerteminde Municipality on the island of Funen.
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Khufu ship
The Khufu ship is an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC.
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Ladby ship
The Ladby ship is a major ship burial, of the type also represented by the boat chamber grave of Hedeby and the ship burials of Oseberg, Borre, Gokstad and Tune in South Norway, all of which date back to the 9th and 10th centuries.
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Nabbelund
Nabbelund is a village in Böda socken, in the Borgholm Municipality of Öland, Sweden.
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Norse funeral
Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age North Germanic Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians), are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas, Old Norse poetry, and notably from the account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Ohthere
Ohthere (also Ohtere), Old Norse Óttarr vendilkráka (Vendelcrow; in Modern Swedish Ottar Vendelkråka) is a semi-legendary king of Sweden of the house of Scylfings, who would have lived during the 6th century (fl. c. 515 – c. 530, Encyclopedia Nordisk familjebok).
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkneyjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of Great Britain.
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Oseberg Ship
The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway.
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Philippines
The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Port an Eilean Mhòir boat burial
The Port an Eilean Mhòir ship burial is a Viking boat burial site in Ardnamurchan, Scotland, the most westerly point on the island of Great Britain.
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Rolvsøy
Rolvsøy is a village, an island, and a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway.
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Saaremaa
Saaremaa (Danish: Øsel; English (esp. traditionally): Osel; Finnish: Saarenmaa; Swedish & German: Ösel) is the largest island in Estonia, measuring.
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Salme ships
The Salme ships are two clinker-built ships of Scandinavian origin discovered in 2008 and 2010 near Salme village on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.
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Sanday, Orkney
Sanday is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland.
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Sarskoye Gorodishche
Sarskoye Gorodishche or Sarsky fort (Сарское городище, literally "Citadel on the Sara") was a medieval fortified settlement in the Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia.
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Scar boat burial
The Scar boat burial is a Viking boat burial near the village of Scar, on Sanday, in Orkney, Scotland.
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Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
The Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is a place of burial dated to the 6th century CE located on Snape Common, near to the town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, Eastern England.
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Solar deity
A solar deity (also sun god or sun goddess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength.
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Stone ship
The stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom in Scandinavia, Northern Germany and the Baltic states.
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Suffolk
Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.
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Sutton Hoo
Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, is the site of two 6th- and early 7th-century cemeteries.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Tønsberg
Tønsberg is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak.
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Timerevo
Timerevo (Тимерёво, Timeryovo) is an archaeological site near the village of Bolshoe Timeryovo, seven kilometers southwest of Yaroslavl, Russia, which yielded the largest deposits of early medieval Arabic coins in Northern Europe.
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Tune ship
The Tune ship (Tuneskipet) is a Viking ship exhibited in the Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy) in Bygdøy, Oslo.
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Tune, Norway
Tune is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway.
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Uppland
Uppland is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital.
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Valsgärde
Valsgärde or Vallsgärde is a farm on the Fyris river, about three kilometres north of Gamla Uppsala, the ancient centre of the Swedish kings and of the pagan faith in Sweden.
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Varangians
The Varangians (Væringjar; Greek: Βάραγγοι, Várangoi, Βαριάγοι, Variágoi) was the name given by Greeks, Rus' people and Ruthenians to Vikings,"," Online Etymology Dictionary who between the 9th and 11th centuries, ruled the medieval state of Kievan Rus', settled among many territories of modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, and formed the Byzantine Varangian Guard.
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Västerås
Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some west of Stockholm.
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Västmanland
Västmanland is a historical Swedish province, or landskap, in middle Sweden.
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Veliky Novgorod
Veliky Novgorod (p), also known as Novgorod the Great, or Novgorod Veliky, or just Novgorod, is one of the most important historic cities in Russia, which serves as the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast.
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Vendel
Vendel is a parish in the Swedish province of Uppland.
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Vendel Period
In Swedish prehistory, the Vendel Period (550-790) comes between the Migration Period and the Viking Age.
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Vestfold
Vestfold is a county in Norway, on the western shore of the Oslofjord.
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Viking Age
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.
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Volkhov River
The Volkhov (Во́лхов) is a river in Novgorodsky and Chudovsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast and Kirishsky and Volkhovsky Districts of Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia.
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Woodbridge, Suffolk
Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, about from the sea coast.
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Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl (p) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow.
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Yaroslavl Oblast
Yaroslavl Oblast (Яросла́вская о́бласть, Yaroslavskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma, and Vologda Oblasts.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_burial
