Comments by "Варяжский вопрос" (@normanism) on "Real Crusades History" channel.

  1. The tradition of ship cremations first tracked at the beginning of the Viking Age. The earliest burials were found among the Swedish community on the Åland Islands, from where the tradition spread to mainland Sweden, displacing the elite burial rites of the Vendel Age. In the Viking Age, boat cremations are considered a marker of the presence of people from Scandinavia.
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