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tgpedersen@... wrote:
> IV The grave forms
>
> Burial customs in the countries around Denmark
*****GK: In the search for "contact proof" between
Nordic countries and the areas associated with
Snorri's "Asaland" and "Vanaland" in the immediate
pre- and post-Augustan period, the presence of
INHUMATION as a rite is only the beginning. As
Alexander Stolbov has intimated, there needs to be
rather specific additional evidence from the
gravesites which would characterize these inhumations
(like the presence of sacrificial equines). Coffins
were EXTREMELY rare in the Don=Volga area, but there
were some.And we could also leave the shape of the
graves aside. More important is the inventory, and
also the presence of richly furnished women's graves
(there were "Amazons" here until Alanic times, plenty
of them). Among the furnishings one would expect would
be such typical items as mirrors, little portable
altars (for religious rites of shamanesses), and
especially arrow points, sometimes quivers and bows.
The jewellery could offer evidence of the famous
"incrustation" style which was later borrowed by the
Goths and Huns.==******
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