Narnian burial practices

A couple of random thoughts regarding Narnian burial practices that I've been turning over in my head for a couple of days after something we talked about in my Age of the Vikings class, in somewhat disjointed form:

Traditionally the Telmarines practice ship burials; royalty, nobility, and the wealthy are buried in ships, while those that aren't so well off make do with being buried in the center of stones in the shape of a ship. After the Telmarine fear of the sea developed, this practice somewhat fell by the wayside, but gravesites are still marked by stones; not entirely certain if the ship burials are still being carried out by Caspian's time. I think so, at least for the royalty. (They also might still be carried out by Tirian's time. Caspian definitely had a ship burial; he was buried in the Dawn Treader. And I'm reasonably certain, yeah, buried, rather than burned, but not entirely positive.)

Traditional Narnian burial practice, pre-Long Winter, is to bury the dead facing east, towards Aslan's country. During the Long Winter burial wasn't practiced, as it was impractical to bury the dead in frozen soil. Not entirely certain what Long Winter funerary practices were; I think the tradition was forgotten by the time Spring came.

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GUYS I HAVE MADE A DINNER OF NOMS. It was pork chops with onions and apples from Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys, which I got because it was pretty and not because I am feeding a man or a boy, but it was DELICIOUS. I got these thin cut pork chops from Whole Foods this morning, and seared three of them until golden in olive oil in my nonstick frying pan, then took them out, melted half a tablespoon of butter in the pan, and threw in some thinly sliced onion and apple (Pink Lady, for those wondering), sauteed those until the onion was caramelized and the apple was soft, then threw the pork chops back in, cooked them some more, and took them out. Served with white rice and sauteed zucchini! OM NOM NOM.

Also I met isweedan today and it was so much fun. Meeting fangirls IRL for the win! And my Dizzy spin-off loot came (Brittany DPNs, the DIC August Dream Club offering (so gorgeous. you are not going to be a hat, Rose Smash, I think you are going to be a SHAWL), two skeins of DIC Classy, and Malabrigo Sock in Turner, which looks completely different than I'd thought it was going to be but still gorgeous), along with (finally!) Silver Pigs. Not that I have time to read it.

Things that I did not do: study. Um. Whoops.