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Essay heading: Significance of Burial Customs in Old Scandinavian Culture
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By this procedure, the living are helping the dead to be liberated from the living world and go to Other World.
As a result of Roman and later Christian influence, the ritual meaning of fire was disregarded and inhumation began to spread out. Although cremation was the dominant burial custom with Odin??s order, Freyr was buried in a burial mound at Uppsala secretly...
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Although cremation was the dominant burial custom with Odin??s order, Freyr was buried in a burial mound at Uppsala secretly. When the Swedes knew of his death three years later, good harvests and peace still prevailed; so they did not cremate him, believing his existence brought about the fortune (Sturluson, ?°Heimskringla?± 14)...
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