The Oseberg Priestess Burial - A Viking Age Mystery

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Video by Maria Kvilhaug. A more updated lecture about the Oseberg find (2020) by the same author (Kvilhaug) may be seen at / 45254322
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Oseberg - "The Mound of the Gods", in Vestfold, Norway, close to Norway`s oldest city Tunsberg. The mound of Oseberg contained a viking ship burial of unequalled splendor for the Viking Age. It was the grave of two ladies of high standing. Long belived to have been a Queen and her sacrificed handmaiden, many modern researchers have pointed out that the ship burial bears overwhelming evidence of having been part of a religious cult, and that the two women were priestesses of more or less equal rank. Was this the grave of an incarnation of Freya and her priestess? (Anne Stine Ingstad`s thesis) Or the grave of two women connected to the cult of giantesses and the Sacred Marriage in connection to kingship consecration? (Gunnhild Røthe`s thesis based on Gro Steinsland`s work) Was it the grave of two völur (witch-priestesses or seeresses), masters of the art of seidr (a Norse form of witchcraft and shamanism)? (Brit Solli`s thesis) Or perhaps a combination of all these things and something more? (My thesis, yay!)
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Maria Kvilhaug (1975-) is the author of The Seed of Yggdrasill, The Maiden With The Mead and the Blade Honer series, as well as other books, articles and lecture videos on the LadyoftheLabyrinth RU-vid Channel and her website bladehoner.wor...
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@zizek 12 лет назад

A wonderful analysis, informed by an immediate knowledge of the life-world of these women still shared by those of us on the same path today.

@Ljotulfson 13 лет назад

@LadyoftheLabyrinth Your video really puts a different angle on the burial at Oseberg, and even though the younger woman was probably born in Norway, the evidence so far still points to the Black Sea regarding her origin. So the 'outsider' priestess theory is still very feasible, and also shows that it wasn't just Swedish Vikings using the Russian rivers to reach the Black Sea. Although I'm British, my Y-chromosome is Norse (Haplogroup I1) from Norwegian Vikings who once ruled the Hebrides!

@LadyoftheLabyrinth 13 лет назад

I always try to find time, eventually, to respond to serious questions relating directly to details in my research and my movies, or questions regarding what is within my field of knowledge. But I need to be presented with actual questions to relate to first. I prioritize those questions that are to the point and shows that thequestioner has already studies my lectures/movies and is basing his or her questions or comments on that. I do not do messaging or chatting. :)

@Ljotulfson 13 лет назад

Although recent DNA testing has shown a Slavic origin (originally it was thought they were from the Black Sea area around Turkey/Iran), if my memory serves me right, recent testing was inconclusive due to possible contamination of the remains. I'd be very grateful if you could point me to a good website with the recent findings from 2010. Thanks for sharing your research on this subject, you've really made us sit up straight and start thinking! :-)

@colourmegone 13 лет назад

Thanks again for an insightful and interesting glimpse into history. We have so little knowledge and can only speculate but the society which produced the goods displayed must have been rich and well established. I always look forward to your work and I find your choice of music particularly apropriate.

@kennethhvidsten7786 5 лет назад

They are probably Sarmatians(North Iranians) as Odin was and followed him from the Black sea north to Germany, Denmark and Sweden. They were accepted by the Scandinavians and they setteled. I guess the women found in the Osebergship was of their kind. The percetage of U7 was far higher during Wiking age than today.

@LadyoftheLabyrinth 13 лет назад

@GermanicHeathen That they may have been mother and daughter has occurred to me, too, but I dont know.The most recent 2010 studies confirm the Slavic origin.The cult symbols are thoroughly Norse, so the ladies must have been brought up to serve a Norse cult.My guess is that they were abducted to Norway as slaves or born as slaves in Norway, but that they were initiated into the priestess office and became very important.Lack of tribal/clan affiliation may have been a political plus, as suggested

@Ljotulfson 13 лет назад

@LadyoftheLabyrinth Thank you for your reply, it will be interesting to know the final result. It's such a pity that the enormous bones(twice as heavy as those of a modern man) of the chieftain buried at Gokstad are so contaminated. Last September I visited Tonsberg to see the new reconstruction of the Oseberg Ship being built there. They are very accomodating regarding volunteers, so I worked with them for a week hewing oak with traditional Viking axes. Hoping to return there soon! :-)

@LadyoftheLabyrinth 13 лет назад

@Ljotulfson Your memory probably serves you right, there is some controversy.In the summer of 2010, a Norwegian radio talkshow discussed the matter and the Slavic origin was presented as the most probable case, and was referred to in some Norwegian newspaper articles that surely the youngest, at least, was from the Black Sea. As nothing has yet been published I have written to the Museum and asked for updates, when they respond I shall let you know! :)

@LadyoftheLabyrinth 13 лет назад

@Ljotulfson Oh that sounds fantastic! My father`s family is from there actually, and still own a small property there, so I have spent some time in Tønsberg and the surrounding area every year throughout my whole life. It still has some magic to it, that place. Tønsberg (in the olden days, Tunsberg, is the oldest town settlement in Norway, one of the biggest "cities" of the Viking Age, but you probably knew that already...:)

@LadyoftheLabyrinth 12 лет назад

@UnoRaza Hi, no, not from the Sophia myth, although it may be related. Earth was a giantess but also a goddess in Old Norse myths. She is the bright-browed daughter of Night, the greatest and most terrible of giantesses (in another place described as an ogress with nine hundred heads), and fathered by Odin. Pre-Christian religions tend to be called "cults" and their sacred figurines and statues "idols"...silly. The cosmic powers always come in a female-male pair in Norse myths. :)

@Ljotulfson 13 лет назад

@LadyoftheLabyrinth It's a beautiful place, and was where I joined the 'Havhingsten fra Glendalough' for stage two of its maiden voyage back in 2006, the start of my involvement as a crew member. The following year we sailed to Dublin via Scotland which was the subject of a BBC Timewatch documentary 'Viking Voyage'. We sailed it back to Roskilde, Denmark in 2008 via the English Channel. Your talks on Norse beliefs are fascinating, and the best I've ever come across! :-)

@valhalla83 11 лет назад

Still too much speculation to be definitive, but it adds a new dimension to the burial. There is still plenty of evidence to suggest that it is Asa's grave, but objectively looking at things is the best way to understand what it actually is; even if we will never know for sure.

@LadyoftheLabyrinth 12 лет назад

@jbgillund It is sadly the case that the work of Gro Steinsland seems not to have been translated into English. She is the lead professor of Norse religion in Norway and has been a huge research authority for decades already. Her research on the sacred marriage material is extensive and crucial to our understanding of Norse religion, and provides a very important platform for my own research. It is a shame that her work is not available in many languages.

@sarahgray430 6 лет назад

It is interesting that genetic testing suggested that these two ladies were of Slavic rather than Norse descent, but were they perhaps related to each other as well (perhaps a mother and her daughter or an aunt and her niece?) Also, there might be a genetic predisposition towards unusual "paranormal" talents. My mother-in-law was from Karelia and came from a family that had a reputation for being able to commune with spirits and sometimes predict the future, and she spent much of her youth hiding from Nazi anthropologists who wanted to study her. Her son claimed to have inheirited some of her talents, and although it's still a little early to tell he seems to have passed these traits on to his children.

@verdew8181 12 лет назад

Fascinating. I certainly learned something here.

@zenkathikes 8 лет назад

Åsa Haraldsdotter, Daughter of Harald Granraude. was my 32nd great-grandmother.

@rattinox 13 лет назад

A fascinating theory! The Thronds, indeed, would never have conceded all spiritual power to any blood Yngling Priestess.......

@chumycepeda4248 2 года назад

BEAUTIFUL VIKING MUSIC

@LadyoftheLabyrinth 13 лет назад

@moegreen2 Yes, this was also one reason to suspect that the younger woman was the queen. Another reason why it would not have been Åsa is exactly because she was a murderer and probably would not have been honored as much as this. However, as I reveal in the movie, none of the women could possibly have been Norse queens...This last year, DNA research has shown that they were Slavs. :)) Which supports the priestess-theory.

@ml-ng2hf 9 лет назад

Fascinating;) And there a special burials for "great ladies" from the iron or bronze age all over Europe. I'm from Austria e.g, where they found the rich burial mount in Mitterkirchen. The woman buried there went to the otherworld with a decorated wagon, many magnificent objects and a slave girl who obviously accompanied her mistress even in death. She is often called "Fürstin" which means "Princess" but regarding the fact that the burial dates back to the Hallstatt-era i believe that we re dealing with a priestess rather than a princess... especially because the wagon is not a war chariot but rather a weapon like the one tacitus talks about when he refers to the goddess nerthus. I can't prove it but I reckon that we might have had similar traditions of "a living goddess" like they still have in India or Nepal where they worship the Kumaris...

@OmmerSyssel 7 лет назад

ml1977 Latest DNA research in Denmark has revealed connections to South Germany & Hungary where exclusive families had direct contact to each other exchanging goods & women..

@GermanicHeathen 13 лет назад

@LadyoftheLabyrinth Thanks thats an informative answer, for some reason it didnt occur to me to think the woman may not have had a tribal affilation for whatever reason and that would have made it all the more easier to bring them in

@jessicaharrison6655 6 лет назад

Boy, I sure wish this was spoken. I took the life of wife/mother and not sorceress. I cant read and clean house at the same time.

@rimerdijkstra5826 Год назад

where can I find these thesises ? are they available online? i am curently covering this subject in an essay and am only able to find imitated and somewhat out dated information on the oseberg toppic.

@GermanicHeathen 13 лет назад

the offspring?) i look forward to hearing an answer :D this video intrigued me alot and i gotta say i took a step back when it was revealed that the woman were of slavic origin.

@giofrasa 13 лет назад

Nice Video !!

@GermanicHeathen 13 лет назад

In such an ethno centric tribal society how did two Slavic woman from the Black sea gain religiouse standing? I am not 100% sure but i had always thought that the gods were within the folk and the people and the tribe? Also wouldnt the Slavic girls and their Germanic counterparts view the gods of their two tribes as different? One explanation might be that the older woman was taken as a young young girl and raised into the society, and the younger girl came later (i assume the younger is not....

@Harwunaz 10 лет назад

Nice ... And nice music :-)

@lindansi 12 лет назад

(continue from the previous post) Exempel hämtas från kvinnogravar i Birka, Fyrkat och från Osebergsgraven i Vestfold. Price argumenterar för att överklasskvinnan i Oseberggraven hade varit völva i livet." Fornnordsk religion, Gro Steinsland pp 343-344 Sorry if I made mistakes in copying in swedish, it is not my first language.

@moirhann 12 лет назад

Wonderful video:) thank you:) what is the name of the song and artist on the first and last song? It was Perfect for the video. :)

@SifuGavelin 11 лет назад

Oden and all his people came from the blacksea acording to Sorri..and the royal familys says that they are related to Odin and his family.

@JoshuaGillund 12 лет назад

Want to know where the source material for the Kingship rite in the marriage bed and giantess ancestral mother consummating it is.

@JoshuaGillund 12 лет назад

@jbgillund Gunnhild Røthe`s thesis based on Gro Steinsland`s work.. does any one have a link or way of me reading this

@Thesortvokter 3 года назад

Cannabis seeds though...

@saraivatoledo1842 8 лет назад

A Bathory fan ... nice!

@JoshuaGillund 12 лет назад

@jbgillund the sacred marriage that is

@dylanlandry4996 4 года назад

You also have to remember DNA today is different then DNA yesterday people have moved and such and the first rulers of the the slavic peoples where Rus so perhaps slaves but theyre DNA would have to he semi similar to scandinavians at that time even scandinavians DNA today doesnt mirror tht of scandinavians in the viking age exactly