> And so it proved, for within that time the ship and the pyre, the girl, and the corpse had all become ashes and then dust. If that translation is accurate they burned a girl alive with the corpse. I’ve read about that viking funeral tradition. It says the boat in the first photo contained the remains of two women. I thought they only burned a slave girl alive at the funerals of high status men. I guess they did it for women too.