SHIP OF THE DEAD: Ancient Nordic History Documentary 🇩🇰 🇸🇪

The Vikings had their own Stonehenge! Stone ship settings aka 'Skeppssättning' are the most remarkable Viking age monuments in Scandinavia, but what were they for? They were built over a period of 2000 years from the Nordic bronze age until the end of the Viking age, mainly in grave fields but they weren’t just associated with burials and cremations as they were also used for pagan rituals and formal assemblies. This video explains how the stone ships may relate first to a Bronze age cult of the sun in Gotland, and later to a Viking belief that the dead would need a vehicle for a journey to and from the underworld. It also connects them to the Viking goddess Freyja and her hall in Folkvang. The stone ship settings included in this film are Tjelvars grave in Gotland, Anundshög in Västmanland, Åsa domaresäte in Södermanland, Ängakåsen and Ale’s stones in Scania and the Jelling stone ship in Denmark.

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MUSIC:
The whole other - Ether oar
Wolcensmen - Sunne (remix by Eternal Rik)
Saichaika - Musica aeterna
Halindir - Hedelandet II
Bark sound productions - My
Aaron Kenny - yonder hill and dale
Patrick Patrikios - away
Kevin MacLeod - Rites
Stark von Oben - Praetorian Germanicus
Stark von Oben - Winter Soulstice
Ormgård - Séta
Borg - Death of Winter
Myling - Töcken
Halindir - Hummocks in fog
Rishi Shah - From Runes to Ruins
X - Steppe expansion

00:00 Introduction
01:08 Bronze age stone ships in Gotland
04:52 Anundshög and Åsa domaresäte
07:10 Disasting
08:08 Ängakåsen
09:32 Ale’s stones
10:50 Jelling stone ship
12:36 Ship burials and solar ships
16:14 Ship of the dead or the sun?
19:59 Ships of Norse mythology
23:10 Conclusion

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