Narnian burial practices
Sep. 11th, 2010 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardA 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.
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.