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In Viking reenactment we aim to make our clothing and personal equipment based on interpretations of archeological findings from the Viking Age. I find it interesting to think about how these sources are commonly in the form of grave findings—we are dressing based on what our ancestors wore when they were being prepared for and sent off to the afterlife. Funeral practices in the Viking Age varied between different regions and periods, including cremation or inhumation, and in some cases more extravagant ship burials. The dead were often sent off with offerings and goods that signified social status, animals, food, equipment and personal belongings that they would need on their travel to the next world. For Halloween this year I dressed up as a corpse from the Viking Age. But before adding lots of blood and a huge 3D transfer wound to my throat (which looked quite ghastly), Christian took a more peaceful photo inspired by the photo series "We are dead-serious about reenactment" by the Swedish reenactment group Andrimners Hemtagare. 
Is she being cremated, or buried in a mound? And how did she die—by fever, or age? Or perhaps she is positioned this way in order to hide a wound to the head? And where might she be going? Perhaps to the underworld, where she will walk over the golden bridge Gjallarbrú on her way to Hel... Or will she be travelling to the fields of Fólkvangr, to dine with Freyja and sit beside her ancestors in the hall of Sessrúmnir? For the record, I'm alive and well, and as we speak I'm sitting here munching on one of the apples from the photo ;) Music: Eldrim - Attergangar # Comments |
 
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