Ive been watching the series and in one episode there is a fight and the chieftain is killed.

In the show they then went on to burn the Earl on a ship which was his funeral,they also sacrifised a slave.

This made me wonder,if people still believed in Odin etc and the Norse religion today would these believers still sacrifise slaves when a chieftain died.

Do you think it is possible?

My friend was telling me about this show, i have not seen any episodes yet.

humanspirit wrote: The sacrificing of attendants/slaves when a prominent individual died was common to many cultures.
Thankfully we've moved on a bit since then.

There's still a festival held in Lerwick, the Shetlands (Scotland), in January called Up Helly Aa which culminates in the burning of a replica Viking longship.
A while back they used to set the ship adrift but some govt plonker decided that was a danger to other ships and put a stop to it.


(It's all become tacky and touristy now of course).

It's quite an entertaining series.

I understand that many cultures practised human sacrifices.

It just made me wonder that's all,with all the seemingly pointless murders that take place.

If it was still practised when leaders died would we be any the wiser to it happening?

Total speculation i know,but based on historical fact as we know it.

haven't see it yet either, probably won't have much interest in it anyway, thought that maybe The Game Of Thrones would be a favorite of mine but it's not.
isn't vikings a story line and not just a documentary?

It appears to be another fictionalisation programme.
Not helpful if it's presented under the History banner imo.

Still many would argue that all 'history' is fictionalised I suppose.

It's most likely that the history channel have used the writings of Ahmad ibn Fadlan as historical evidence for certain parts of the series that portrays customs etc. Ahmad ibn Fadlan was a 10th century Arab traveler who could have been truthful or not?


www.uib.no/jais/v003ht/03-001-025Montgom1.htm

I don't like "The Game Of Thrones". Its not that much good. Most of the people are interested in playing it.
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I love Game of Thrones. I only saw one clip from Vikings which was on a show called The Soup which makes fun of TV shows. It didn't appeal to me.

Another vote for Game of Thrones here.
Great characters, nice plot twists and wonderful cinematography.

I been watching Vikings quite like it but whats the deal with these shield maidens? Are they for real or just some fiction made up part of the feminisation campaign??

Still never had chance to see 'Game of Thrones', but the books it's based on, the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series (the 1st of which is 'A Game of Thrones') are fantastic - highly recommend!!!

I don't know much about Vikings, but think a lot of the Mason symbolism bears striking similarities with aspects of the Kabala.

Ive only just started reading about the Nordic culture due to the tv series.

I will read the sagas etc.

Thinking of starting a new thread at some point.

So many cultures have similar aspects,totem poles?

humanspirit wrote:
It would not make much sense to kill a slave/servant,isnt there a theory the ancient Egyptians did the same,which I also find highly unlikely ...

Or maybe they were murdered ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_(pharaoh)
sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/History/91909-mummies.html

LightGiver wrote:
It's my understanding that it was carried out to provide servants to the deceased in the afterlife.

It is known that the Egyptians believed in reincarnation or the transmigration of the soul. They thought the soul transmigrated from body to body and this was a reason why they embalmed the body in order to preserve it so that it could journey along with ka, an animating force that was believed to be counterpart of the body, which would accompany it in the next world or life. Ka might be considered equivalent to the term of soul. This establishes the dating of the concept of reincarnation back to the ancient Egyptian religion but many think it dates beyond antiquity..



Reincarnation is also a theme in Norse Mythology and was a common belief amongst the Vikings ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenesis
www.detoxorcist.com/reincarnation-and-rebirth.html
www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/r/reincarnation.html