Life and Afterlife: Dealing with the Dead in the Viking Age

Professor Neil Price delivers the second of three lectures, September 26, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead.

[@LarsAgerbk]

The last couple of minutes is where this video really takes off. Something that will stay with you forever.

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[@henrikanton3428]

The purpose of the cermonies was to confuse future archeologists.

[@nowhereman6019]

Viking trolls.

[@mercster]

Such a fascinating and informative lecture series, Mr. Price you are a scholar and a gentleman, and probably a bit weird. This is what is wrong with the Internet today, 41k views and 602 likes. Heaven help us. Thanks Cornell U.

[@user-mv6he6gl8m]

Hmm, I really liked this and gave it a thumbs up. Now I'm in the almighty algoritm of youtube and will get viking videos until I choke. Still a youtube fan though...

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[@robt3078]

I love these lectures. Thank you for posting this.

[@MisstressMourtisha]

I want the fingers and toes of my enemies sprinkled over my grave.. Vikings: You got it!

[@C.Noble13]

How do you offend a Nordic Scandinavian...? You call them Nor'wegian WEGIAN term is highly offensive. Like saying :Norn witch", witch are bitches. Should be Norns/NorNir Völva Seithr. Æsir aseer.

[@alexhammerbekk]

@@C.Noble13 the offence starts (w)ith a W...nordmann.. from norge/noreg compound word of nord-rike/rige nor(d)-r(i)ge = kingdom of the north :-p its like explaining to a brit why there is a k in knife....kniv

[@C.Noble13]

@@alexhammerbekk Keep the Thor in Thorsday ⚡. Eve night Nurse Nymph Nuns Ninmah Ninhursag NASA Nazi's secret of NIMH.

[@dominicconnor3437]

This guy is so knowledgeable. I want his new book.

[@RonJohn63]

29:30 Now we know where Michael Crichton got the idea for his book "Eaters of the Dead: he Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922"

[@VredesStall]

Of course, he did. Crichton explains that in his novel (and is also listed in the credits of the 1999 movie, "The 13th Warrior").

[@RonJohn63]

VredesStall It's been decades since I read it...

[@SelfReflective]

Like multiples of ten?

[@JohnSnow-eo8wn]

As the first of these lectures, this second lecture is also extremely interesting.

[@sneedmando186]

Didn’t know there’s more, Thanks ancestor

[@jaroslawirytowski924]

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[@Kainlarsen]

Vikings didn't do things by halves, did they? Ritual is a powerful thing.

[@RonJohn63]

34:00 Even now, people don't get buried in their everyday clothes. Even poor people are dressed in their best; maybe even clothes purchased for the occasion.

[@tomstills5146]

The clothing people wore was almost like a uniform of their trade, disclosure was important. They wished to be recognised as a member of a particular class.

[@dboydboy1000]

@@tomstills5146 oh because you were there.

[@spartan.falbion2761]

@@dboydboy1000 They had passive aggression in those times, too.

[@johnpingrin1697]

They dressed them in their best so when they went the Helfing, they were judged appropriately. Just as the warriors were buried in their boots so as they went through the journey of the afterlife, they would take the east path. If anyone wants to REALLY know why, read the Lore. Read the Eddas, read the Heimskringla, most importantly is the Asatrú Edda. It breaks down the burial/ funeral pyre, and afterlife and the journey that is to come

[@chukmok]

definitely the coolest guys in all of history

[@ecologicaladam7262]

Most enjoyable - and informative.

[@Seeter1000]

they bury the man with an extra leg "dont be sad about your death be amused by what we gave you like that extra leg" viking humor

[@VredesStall]

Wouldn't that be something if a group archeologists found the actual ship-burial that Ibn-Fadlan himself witnessed??

[@BibleLovingLutheran]

VredesStall it'd be ash

[@johnpearson5575]

It was burnt

[@jaybeen2865]

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[@phoenixtotem9189]

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[@dominicconnor3437]

It was burnt to ash

[@shadowbanned4626]

So that's Ibn from the movie, "13th Warrior" I presume

[@TheBillybiker1]

Yeah, sort of.

[@PixelViking]

Ibn means ‘Son of’…

[@vladtheinhaler3]

This is fascinating stuff.

[@awacksi]

That’s quite the tie you got there my man.

[@stevenwintersnight1036]

The stones and removed jaws were to keep the dead from returning as undead "wights".

[@Thorkitty19]

+Steven Wintersnight I agree with this. He fails to mention the draugr that are mentioned in the Icelandic Sagas. He also fails to mention the burials with swords that are bent or wrapped in loops as to take away their power. I believe you are right that they are trying to do rituals to both honor the person but prevent their powerful spirit from becoming a problem for the living.

[@VredesStall]

Very interesting. Thank you. ....But was is "wight"??

[@stevenwintersnight1036]

Bwahahaha!

[@VredesStall]

+Steven Wintersnight "Wights"... as in disembodied spirits who continue to occupy or dwell in the land. I seriously doubt these are human. Most likely demonic.

[@stevenwintersnight1036]

VredesStall maybe the spirits inhabit the corpse and bring it animated to torment the mortal realm

[@inUR2teeth]

3 legs... Triskele: Some of the connotations include: life-death-rebirth, spirit-mind-body, mother-father-child, past-present-future, power-intellect-love and creation-preservation-destruction to name but a few.this is thought not to be the only meaning, as it is also believed to represent three Celtic worlds; the spiritual world, the present world and the celestial world. Like the ancient Trinity knot, the number 3 holds a special symbolism within the triskele.

[@cyan1616]

The Vikings knew that you are born into the world screaming and covered in your mothers' blood. Birth was not only a painful and traumatic event, but risky for both mother and child. It's the Scandinavians believed you should leave this world the way you came into it, screaming and covered in blood. Maybe the role of a Valkyrie "Angel of Death" was to ensure that it happened?

[@johnpingrin1697]

Try reading the Asatrú Edda. It will definitely help you

[@lennutrajektoor]

At @40:13 Neil Price is describing Finno-Ugric horse sacrificing ritual. Last time such rite was committed was in Estonia in 1928.

[@andzzz2]

Thats really interesting. Horse sacrifice is also very common in Indo-European cultures from India to Ireland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_sacrifice

[@lennutrajektoor]

@@andzzz2 Finno-Ugric peoples had deep cultural exchange with Iranian cultures, maybe India, but its influence is negligible. The horse is not the sole deity in the religion and it varies based on which animal is the dominant in the region. Horse could be replaced by moose or reindeer. The other unknown tradition of Finno-Ugric religion is how much oxes were regarded as deity but it has been known via numerous accounts oxes too were sacrificed. The other detail is that oxes were used instead of horse to plough the fields which might be explained by households lacking horses for that task. As late as in 1936 use of ox to plough a field was documented on Estonian island Vormsi. Funny is that they were Beach Swedes who were forcefully settled there in 1206 by the Danish king, but it's a normal trend foreign settlers are forced into assimilation and embracing out cultural heritage and language.

[@anorsegermanicpolytheistli6980]

Rigamortis. It can make the body move aft death. My grandfather was on duty at the morgue when a corpse sat up. The stones may simply be a sine that they had problems with getting the dead body to settle or to flatten out when stiffened. Personally, I think in most cases, that that's all the stones are about. Not all..I agree that most ;positioning is highly symbolic and well considered.

[@zone5iveradio]

Brilliant show great watch ...

[@WOTHAN66666]

Frankly A viking funeral soundslike any one of my BBQ partys. And the drinking is long cus There beer was low in alcohol.

[@C.Noble13]

Not to mention that Fig leaves are highly toxic to humans. Ash and Elm Æ are not. Scores #1 for Odin wisdom. Dendrochronology. 🌲

[@C.Noble13]

Odin said Mankind was made from Wood, Morning Wood Nature magic . The holly.Wood is poisonous and parasitic, like dark Mirror Miroir magICK . Actor's Casting Acts of Script.

[@SleekMinister]

Making a mound suggests women wanting to instruct the young in how the dead person became a powerful asset to the society (one bit at a time).

[@kimpierri1683]

Does anyone know which new translation of Ibn Fadlan He are talking about?

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

Very interesting

[@elielsaf3362]

Viking Funeral would be a cool name for a heavy metal band.

[@SleekMinister]

Yeah, or album, atleast.

[@SleekMinister]

Hey, there already is an album called that. I don't knw why it didn't register. It's called 'Likferd', and it's ... killah..!

[@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667]

I've always been fond of Angry Salad myself.

[@derekgreene2304]

Hold on, aren't the waters around the world supposed to be getting higher over the last 2 thousand yrs or so?? He said it was lower!!

[@Fistfury42]

Indeed. Global warming.. Oh wait can't prove that.. Lets go with "Climate change"!

[@karenmcardle142]

He definitely did say it was much lower now , they could get big ships in way back in their time .

[@shortscenes9338]

The oceans of the world are obviously ignoring the politics of the time.

[@jeffatwood9417]

Wonderful presentation. Thank you for your work. Yama, the lord of Death in India, is related to the moon. When people die who are still attached to the world, their spirits go to the moon first where they live in the land of ancestors until they are rained back down ("God's" semen) to go through transmigration from mineral to plant to animal to human again...though it seems like some go straight back to human form. This might have something to do with the night funeral and the moon. If people had a particular deity to whom they were dedicated, pretty much meaning that they are not attached to the world but rather the divine, then they went to the sun bright divine world. After that, those who are neither attached to the world or any particular deity, like "godless men," then they go along the rainbow road to the liberated place of dark bliss...bliss because there's no suffering of sensations to be reborn.

[@inquisitor8191]

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[@lillysnet9345]

I have never heard the expression "dark bliss". But in my dream I was standing in total darkness. Imagen the air but totally dark. This darkness was so warm, save,protective and so intelligent. I had filling that everything was done and nothing more need to be done. We (i don't know who aer "we"... probably another like me) communicated by intuition. There is more to the dream... but just to confirm that there is really place like that. Would you tell where I can read something more and who owns this realm. I was searching to understand where i come from...🌺

[@theblissfullone]

Interesting.

[@HappyQuailsLC]

I have heard of stones being places upon people to prevent them from rising from the dead, as envisaged as a result of times when people were thought to be dead, but once wrapped up and brought into a building for protection then became revied when not actually dead, and this effected those who encountered these situations and devised explanations of their own as to how this would have happened, according to their own world view of their time.

[@ThePorkupine73]

Maybe the stones are to deal with rigor mortis.

[@Ricca_Day]

Unlikely, since some of the more lavish burials were revisited and revised along the way. It recalls the use of plastered skull burials in Jericho from around 9000 years before Christ.

[@CKing-388]

The title should be “caring for the dead in the Viking age.” Not “dealing” with the dead. As though it’s a chore. As a 3rd generation funeral director, I can honestly say a lot of care goes into caring for the dead. All funerals are different, as all people are different. Viking age people were people like you and I too.

[@ntquiteramb0]

Denotation is the same. Don't get caught up in the connotation.

[@nyhammer1]

DONT BOTHER ABOUT THE OSEBERG SHIP. THATS SOMETHING SPECIAL. THE GOKSTAD SHIP IS A VIKING SHIP.

[@t2dghealthyresearch952]

Most burial mounds are collapsed buildings...which were covered in mud silt etc in a great flood..

[@mirimirmiri3612]

It is their life, the life. As if one, is commissioned by duty on either way, for the rich or poor, the graced or the disgraced, free, or not according to the rules and laws of the society. To lay as an accurate depiction of the dead, more precisely their life, more exatley, what are they known for, while alive, more exatley as a five senses account for where they are going. It still exist in a very diluted version, to this day, in most societies. The people attending your funeral, as witness of the deceased person, or persons. In this occasion, of the modern one, all of it, is preformed in memories without saying a word, or by certain talks, jokes, jibes, crying, laments, emptiness, etc. In total opposite to what happened then. Hence then the drinking, slaughter, fighting, slave girl, sexual activity, and sacrifice, which has to go in that order, in order to be bearable for the sacrifice, and accepted, hence the delirium, and visions. The objects, animals, people of the household, buried together, are all witness for the life lived, of the, and the. Ready for where they are going, and as a fact for the future. In case of any dispute arising, that needs to be solved by facts, the objects in the grave, the position of the body, the condition of the body etc instead of witness that cannot be there forever. All of this is done for a reason and one reason only. To be read. Reading as we know it? Nowhere near. By whom? I will not say, not now, as the reading is not right, not yet.

[@Karina-Loves-Andreas]

Emir: whoever you might be grieving, you are not alone dear. Please, I hope you can love your lost ones, but move on and have a beautiful 2022. I'm just listening to lecture now, but getting a lot from it. Anyway: I hope you've found peace and content. Loss is hard.

[@sittingstill3578]

1:03 - lecture begins

[@PeterSt1954]

As a sufferer myself I do wonder if older people went to sleep sitting to reduce or avoid leg cramp. I take quinine tablets to reduce this and I still have to get up and sit in a chair sometimes when the quinine doesn't work. I believe semi-sitting beds and "cramp stones" are known from a British island monastic site.

[@t2dghealthyresearch952]

Put a dry bar of soap in a net bag by your feet in bed at night

[@SuperFunkmachine]

So every one got really really drunk then things got weird.

[@ACruelPicture]

After seeing this lecture, Snorri's account of Thor kicking a dwarf into Baldr's funeral pyre suddenly makes perfect sense.

[@trentosborn0990]

best life changing purpused look into it all

[@ts8538]

Living and dying with these people was no picnic. Human beings can practice forms of ritualized cruelty that no animal would ever imagine.

[@gtg488w]

I know this sounds wild, and I won’t get too into detail. The Valkyrie - there are some military vets that have said, that this legend of spiritual-/ethereal-ish real human-ish warrior women of the Valkyrie from back then…are actually present tense military from a Germany colony that lives on Mars…using time travel in a way that borderline breaks galactic time travel laws…they go back in history to the Vikings’ existence, cutting off these Vikings’ heads when they have died in battle or are severely wounded. Taking them on their spaceship that they drew a white horse on…using high alien tech that reanimates the freshly dead… Then when these ancient people come back to life they tell them they’ve reached Valhalla. Pretend a ship captain is Odin. And they make them live in the Mars colony with them. This is to maintain genetic diversity in the colony they say. Lol

[@mercster]

My god. Savage, heartbreaking... imagine living in that world. Having done absolutely no research, it sounds like there was some sort of profaning of the funeral... or rather, maybe not profaning, but countering the death with more of the same: war, death, rape, blood, horror. I think it's very telling that at the end of the orgiastic killing of the ritual whore, a close relative, no clothes (so as not to sully them with the profanity), not even letting the sight or sounds to reach his eyes or ears... drops the single torch. Then the goings on were purified and safe for everyone else. Cleansed, life goes on. EDIT: I did want to mention that, obviously there was more than war, death, rape, blood, murder. Up until the final conflagration, sounds like quite a party. But I'm not sure we should attach the same "party atmosphere" we do today with the sex, the drinking, the seeming merry-making. Or maybe it was. I would love to read more about this account. This kind of stuff fascinates me. Thank God almighty I live when I do, where I do. We should all be very thankful (well, some of us.)

[@edmundblackadder6698]

this is a great series. What Byzantine sources is Dr. Price referring to about funerals around the @57:05 mark?

[@lisasternenkind6467]

This I would also like to know.

[@Karina-Loves-Andreas]

This seems very dramatic. But obviously not EVERY Scandinavian burial was quite as dramatic as this. Some of the animal sacrifices were beloved friends. A Norse Pagan burial today doesn't necessarily need to include all those sacrifices. But what you describe: an expression of love and loss. And grief. And letting go.

[@jessicapalmer3452]

Interesting!

[@Cornell]

Glad you think so!

[@Sheepdog1314]

10:00 "witch" or "sorceress"....not. She most likely was a "volva" - calling her a witch is quite demeaning.

[@karlkuttup]

this guy not got the viking idea correct as not all norse did viking many different regions from celts russ franks gayles welsh spainish portugesee all were out viking with norseman and can only guess the full meaning of graves

[@reteguy7338]

I heard that around the mid to late viking ages, these vikings were pretty much a very mixed peoples that came from all around Europe, so at this point the term Vikings must meant just a job rather than a race. But still the Swedes and Norwegians were the one who started it, thus the early Vikings must had been predominantly Northmens.

[@stkargronskog9345]

WHAT IS GOING ON??? - LOL best part

[@chanoom]

Fascinating.

[@Motivationalwisdomspeech]

is this not messing with there afterlife?

[@WhiteHorseOfKilburn]

Most interesting..

[@alienaurochs]

History is written by the victor. Viking (from the old Norse Vikingr,) is a verb - a job description, not a name for a group of people. The work done to preserve, encapsulate and educate on matters related to Norse Paganism was and is done almost exclusively by non-Heathens. Life in the ages before the modern era was harsh and unforgiving. Don’t mistake objective brutality for barbarism. We will never know the mysteries of Norse funeral rites, as the ancestors knew them, because Christianity sought to destroy and defame every objection to their dogma. As we reconstruct and relearn the old ways, we evolve with everything else on this planet, and make concessions for modern sensibilities. May the gods watch over you, and may you make your ancestors proud.

[@veronicajensen7690]

the word is not only used as a verb it's is also used as in "he was a great Viking"not only as "going Viking""it's also used in pluralis so not only Vikingr but also Vikingar in old Norse, it was also used in old English when the English Monks wrote about the Vikings, nobody know what it means , some historians think it means "people from the Vik" Vik means Bay/inland in old Norse and also in modern Scandinavian languages, others think it came from a much older word Wiking used in other places in the world sometimes meaning warrior, other times pirate, but there are words that seems to be the same or similar in many language but have absolutely nothing to do with each other "Glass" means icecream in Swedish ect." anyway Scandinavians today call them Vikings, our historians call them Vikings so maybe you can get used to using the word as we don't call them "old Norse" unless we talk to an English speaker

[@FeonaLeeJones]

Fascinating…..!

[@loganross1861]

i wish they drew them more like how they found them, instead of adding in the health and life...even if broken and destroyed by time....because we simply do not have the perspective represented here...not really....and that's how a lot of history gets dressed up and altered....with artistic renderings....but I guess that's the way of things....

[@humansarenottofu]

He actually stated his reason for giving reconstruction drawings instead of the real things here 27:00 because that's the point of his lecture.

[@Brindle_Boxer]

I just want to know why that sweet mullet is leashed up. Let it free!

[@MrStoptheEU]

So in viking afterlife you will never meet your family again. Thats sad.

[@random120]

MrStoptheEU not sure how you got that from this clip... what did the slave girl say again before she was killed?

[@EmilReiko]

Guess it depends on were and how your died

[@jeffatwood9417]

not according to the saxons before Charlemagne killed them for not converting, specifically because they would not be with their families if the converted.

[@Ricca_Day]

Caleb Hanson She said she could see her relatives in the afterlife, according to Ibn F., not necessarily 'theirs'.. right? Gotta wonder.

[@peteypete1984]

Not 90s Maynard

[@arcuscotangens]

42:40 You can say that again.

[@stanleymazur9728]

great :-)

[@RandHunt]

That Mullet!

[@karenreaves3650]

I have the red head Gene.

[@jonnyxs892]

My condolences 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😂

[@johnpingrin1697]

Hail Odin.

[@linktojinx]

Can someone please explain to me what is going on with that dude's hair at the beginning to the right? Is it some type of mullet? and in case you're wondering, this is just one of those auto play videos for me oh, that is why my question has nothing to do with the presentation because I'm not watching this lol

[@nowhereman6019]

I really hate that people still glorify these savages. Like, I understand the fascination with history and culture, but some people just treat these barbarians as demigods.

[@hotpepper5125]

How dear you insult my Hertigae

[@millenials_best]

You, professor, are simply adorable. I will keep you and love you and call you my squishy!@!!@!#

[@cn6519]

This sounds like a white wash to me. The new always try to paint the past so savage. Burning ship and items from the past, to destroy the past. Putting the past into the past, quite literally.

[@Danny365x]

Their lies are starting to be noticed more and more

[@darlahenri8095]

Horrific cruel savager no wonder they no longer exist. They are condemned to suffer what they have done 10 times over and over.

[@stormdog6197]

"frazzle-drip" vi-king style ???

[@carolinemcgreal2382]

All sounds very demonic.

[@lauralauren6432]

VI=6 Kings. King/ Kung/ Khan

[@myessyallyahamericus8405]

Or I'll never feel safe in this country ever again.

[@michaelfehskens6101]

Wow, that cell phone going off really sucked.

[@JohnBrown722so]

Almost makes me feel like somebody is doing on purpose certain time marker

[@Bonita.ch1]

Kick off the ones who cough every fknkn 2mins!

[@ivanhostettler6622]

Hmmm⚜👻

[@bullvinetheband7260]

They were hoping to impregnate the slave girl in order for her to have a child in the afterlife that would incur the good fortune of the gods onto the tribe.

[@georgspengler3573]

Don't know if that's fact or an educated guess.

[@j.andrewpressley7650]

Complete guess. Ibn's account is a one off and was very likely based on stories he'd heard about more likely than first hand witness.

[@thelastunicorn25]

That's what I was thinking it might be too

[@reteguy7338]

@@j.andrewpressley7650 Ibn Fadlan wrotes in vivid details, He was clearly living in the scene himself. Ibn Fadlan were still in the court of Volga Bulgaria when a group of Rus arrived. The thing is, Ibn Fadlan share his feelings in his travelouge not only applied to the Rus, but also for the some Turkish tribes He encounter and even for the Volga King himself.

[@jeffatwood9417]

Interesting idea, but I've never heard of such a concept. Hard to give birth when you have a huge hole in your head. The alchemical use of semen in India and China are similar enough to postulate that there was some kind of life-giving power to keep him strong in the afterlife.

[@Danny365x]

They always play these lectures of lies after Jon Levi's videos

[@gertjanvandermeij4265]

"afterlife" LMAO !

[@33eye33]

sick. were i there ? no. just stories we are told. wake up carbon dating? dont make me laugh

[@jamesstevenson7725]

Fadlan is not a good source for Norse ritual or religion. Disgraceful that you are using him as a supposed reliable source.

[@htx92]

There is no other sources to go by. Build a time machine to go back in time or discover a ground breaking viking archeological discovery smart guy.

[@jeffatwood9417]

And how do you come to your conclusion? It seems quite good for what it is. The point that each funeral was unique should be enough to counter your judgement.

[@whall4wh]

Disgraceful.? Prejudice much?

[@thevalonqar2238]

Yeah, I'll take the lecturers word for it. Lol.

[@martinmonty7014]

Hmm

[@MrStoptheEU]

Thank god(s) there are no vikings anymore.

[@thuglife896]

There are ... They're called Russians

[@martinmonty7014]

Lots of heathens around we are not gone yet

[@johnpearson5575]

NO INTRODUCTION PLEASE!!!

[@deborahelliott3826]

Don't accept British his story.

[@dboydboy1000]

With all his years of studying this joker couldn’t even come up with any real photos?!

[@humansarenottofu]

If you pay attention enough you'd realize that he stated his reason here 27:00 , these lectures are not to study archeology but to get to what it might have been at the time of the burial.

[@jax408]

Cornell wow ! I am impressed ! Not ! STOP

[@demsandlibsareswinecancer4667]

Well what do you know? People have been ridiculous things since the beginning of History. It's not just a feature of our current time. Who'd have thought