Picture No | 10056146 |
Date | circa 800 |
Description | Viking Funeral |
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The funeral of a Viking chief; he is laid on his boat with some freshly killed slaves, his horse, his favourite hounds and a falcon ; it is set alight and sent out to sea
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Source | Lancelot Speed in Scott Elliot 'The Romance of Early British Life' (1909) page 312 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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