Although in a location with better catering, non-stop entertainment and quality plumbing.Īs people in the Nordics gradually came to worry that the whole Valhalla, maidens, bottomless mead and fight-until-you-drop-and-bounce-right-back story was fake news, a lot more effort was put into remaining alive. in battle while moving forwards, death just became a continuation of life, in another location.
As long as a death on earth was honourable, i.e. But most importantly, the Vikings did not really see much of a difference between life and death. One reason for the nonchalance could be that he had more immediate concerns, such as getting the longship across to the British Isles for a weekend of pillage and assorted atrocities, and for which I on behalf of the entire family offer the most sincere apologies to our British and Irish friends. To my great great-great-great etc grandfather Steingrimur (or Thor or Gorm or whatever), a concept such as life expectancy would in any case have had limited interest. The Vikings were much more focused upon reducing other people’s life expectancies - as in down to the next few minutes - than extending the length of their own lives. Surviving a summer did not give a lot of saga cred relative to making it through a Nordic winter. Or rather 30 winters, which was how they kept track of age. My Viking ancestors led short and often violent lives, and a “life” was considered to be about 30 years.
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