The Vikings Exhibit, the Canadian Museum of History


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May 12th 2016
Published: May 12th 2016
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I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Vikings exhibition, a most informative and complete presentation sponsored by the Scandinavian embassies at Canada's largest museum, the Museum of History in Gatineau QC. Like many people, I had a limited and quite distorted image of the Vikings, as nothing but bloodthirsty barbarians, who murdered, pillages and enslaved more advanced societies across Eu... Read Full Entry



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Christian reliquary box

It might have been 'liberated' from a monastery in pious Ireland.
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35 Christian fish pendants

Remember Jesus' promise: "I will make you fishers of men".
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sketch of typical burial mounds

They are found in many Scandinavian locations.
Burial customs varied.Burial customs varied.
Burial customs varied.

Sometimes they buried just the decedent, sometimes with his weapons, and sometimes in his boat.
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boat burial

They could be either actual or symbolic (parts of the boat only).
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Christian burials ...

... provide much more skeletal information for archaeologists than early Norse cremations



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