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V61.3. Coffin buried upright.
V61.3.0.3. Man buried upright beneath kitchen stairway in order that he may watch
his family. Laxd ch. 17; cf. HjOlv 510 ch. 21: »hallarveggjum undir«.
V61.4. Head buried one place, body another. Cf. Dl 380.3. HålfdS ch. 9 in Hkr I 97,
ch. 7 in FMS X 175-76.
V61.5. King buried in his war car. Sogubr 24 ch. 9 (FAS I 386-87), cf. Saxo lib. VII
c. V. 1 = Herrm 551; Helreid in BuggeE 260 = Nornag 69 ch. 8 (ib. 333): Bryn-
hildr; Weinhold 483.
V61.6. Christian buried in stone coffin. Atlam 103 (?) = Vols ch. 40 (38); Ågrip ch.
6 in FMS X 384; OOdd 196-97 (ch. XLVI 8-9; FAS II 301, 322, 558-59); Yngv
46; Dåm 88, 89, 104-05, 107 ch. 12, 13, 17.
(V61.7. Christian buried in wooden coffin.)
V61.8. Burial in grave-mound. Cf. E481.3 HHu II in BuggeE 198: Dropl ch. 11; Eyrb
ch. 37; Laxd ch. 28; GislaS ch. 14; GullF ch. 14; Hell 9, 34, 35 ch. 6, 15, 16;
HrafnkelF ch. 8; Ldb ch. 25, 38, 39, 74, 90, 92, 122, 125 (= BardSn 13 ch. 6),
131, 134, 169, 369, p. 12 n., 142 n.; Hkr Prologus; Ys ch. 8, 23 ff.; ForstB 197
ch. 12; t>orlJ 214 (FMS III 101; Fjfsl 396; fsi. Foms III (1883) 129); Svada fx
ib. 436 (FMS II 195); Ågrip ch. 6 in FMS V 384; Svarfd ch. 7; Floam ch. 8, 9,
18; FordarH ch. 13, 19, 20; Olåfs fx Geirstadaålfs in FMS X 212; OlåfTr in Flb I
403; Herv 14,101 (FAS 1429,448,489,499,508-09,517); Sogubr 24 ch. 9 (ib. 386-
87) ;Uppl 456-57 ch. 1-2 (ib. 104-05); Vols ch. 1 (ib. 115),cf.p.2,84,116;RagnarS
ch. 4, 5 in Hb 465,467 (ib. 356, 360); HrolfKr 107 ch. 34 (ib. ch. 52); OOdd 16-17,
76-77, 94-95, 101, 105-06, 186-87 (ch. III 1-2, XXIII 3, XXVIII 1, XXIX 16,
XXX 8, XLIV 10; FAS II 169 (508), 200 (530), 209 (535-36), 215, 221-22, 292
(556)); HålfH IV 3, VI4 (FAS II28,30); Fri6f)j 18-11, XII12 (ib. 65,98,488-89);
ÅnB 340, 354 ch. 4, 6; ForstVik 410 ch. 11; GHrolf 246, 321, 332, 344, 348 ch.
3, 29, 31, 33, 34; HjOlv 510 ch. 21; HålfdBr 587-88 ch. 15; SorlaSt 433 ch. 14;
HrolfG 46 ch. 28 (ib. III 139; 71 ch. 5); EgÅsm VI10 ff., XII 2 (ib. 376-78, 389),
cf. introd. xxv-ix; Vigl 73-74 ch. 16; ViktorBl in ZDPh XXVI 13-14; HålfdB 10
ch. 6; SkåldH 30 ch. 9; GunnarK 245; VestfjGr 169; Amb 178 ch. 38 (37);
Olfh ch. 3; AtlaO 18-19 ch. 15; Villif 85 ch. 40; Stark 102 ch. 26; Saxo lib. I c.
VIII 17, lib. III c. III 7-8, c. IV 15, lib. IV c. II 4, lib. V c. VIII1, etc. Cf. Vries
18, 26; Weinhold 490 ff.
V61.8.2.* Person still alive goes into his grave-mound. GullF ch. 3 and HålfdE XXVI
14 (FAS III 558): Agnarr; HaraldHårf ch. 6 in FMS 186: Herlaugr; BardSn 38
ch. 18: Rakni; Åndr 85.
V61.9. Lion buried in stone cave with gold letters. VilhSj 119 ch. 56.
V64. Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial.
V64.1. Shipwrecked each get a piece of the chief's gold ring in order to have gold with
them in death. Fridfj VI13 (FAS II78,493 n.). Cf. Gautr 9 ch. 2 (ib. III12): »eigi
gott at fara snaudr til Odins«; Weinhold 493.
V65. Commemoration of death.
V65.2. Drinking festival in memory of the dead, »drekka erfi«. Sinfj and Atlam 75 in
BuggeE 202, 304; Vols ch. 10,40 (38), 43 (41); RagnarL ch. 19 (20) (FAS 1294-95);
Herv 36, 85-88, 141-15 (ib. 490-95); Sogubr 14 ch. 5 (ib. 376); HrolfG 25 ch. 16
(ib. III 71-72, 105, 112); OOdd 26, 107-08 (ch. IV, XXXI 8; FAS II 174, 223-24);
KetilH 122 ch. 3; GHrolf 349 ch. 34; SorlaSt 433 ch. 14; HjOlv 456 ch. 2; IllGr
659 ch. 6; Fidr II 358; EgilSiduH ok TofaV in FMS V 327-28; ForstB 183 ch. 5;
Ulf 158; HringH 29 ch. 12; Vilm 199 ch. 24; NikL 3-6 ch. 1, 3; Andr 84, 85;
Saxo lib. III c. II 11 and III 1, and in family sagas as Eyrb ch. 54, Laxd ch. 27,
Svarfd ch. 11, etc., cf. GrønbechVFO IV 126; Weinhold 500.