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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Jun 17, 2019 17:51:23 GMT
So...what if, some of the cool but odd things we find in graves were failures that were buried with the person to show their folly in the afterlife?
I mean, we dig up some single examples of strange stuff....that we can't seem to make work with the understanding of the culture of the time.
Thoughts?
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Post by christain on Jun 25, 2019 3:03:08 GMT
I saw you had no responses with this, but could you clarify a bit? Are you, like, referring to things like the iron dagger found in King Tut's tomb...in a Bronze-Age society? I wouldn't exactly call that a failure though.
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Post by tensho on Jun 25, 2019 4:32:58 GMT
Interesting about the iron dagger. Never knew about this before.
I was thinking the OP meant how some graves are found with broken swords placed inside?
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Jun 25, 2019 13:21:26 GMT
Sorry, for instance, there is a beautiful Madu that was from a spanish knights grave, I forget who, but it was not something in use at the time by t hat culture. So he obviously saw it further south and thought it was cool...and was buried with it. I figure it got him killed. And yes, any number of broken weapons etc...
And while King Tuts dagger was iron, it was crap compared to bronze for the times, it was just rare. Just lots of little things you see when reading that make me wonder...why was that object buried with that person...
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jun 25, 2019 13:33:56 GMT
Yeah, why did they bury rusty steel swords?
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Post by csills2313 on Jun 26, 2019 0:56:56 GMT
So they could spend eternity polishing the rust from their swords ⚔️
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Post by christain on Jun 26, 2019 3:53:55 GMT
To my understanding, bent or broken swords were buried as sacrificial offerings...especially in Viking burials. They must have been one hell of a VIP to sacrifice that much good steel back to the ground from whence it came.
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