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The Shape of the Soul: The Viking Mind and the Individual| 1hr : 21mins
Director: Cornell | Producer: Cornell
Focus Years: 2012 | Country: United States
Subject Tags: americas, communication, culture, evolution, global, spiritual awareness, united states
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
Professor Neil Price (Archaeology, University of Aberdeen) delivers three lectures focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead. Early medieval Scandinavians' attitudes to death provide a window into the Viking mind, and they were monumentalised in some of the most spectacular burials known to archaeology. A study of these complex and spectacular funeral rituals is not only fascinating in its own right, but is inevitably also a meditation on this particular culture's responses to the human condition. The Vikings' unique view of the world can provide genuinely deep perspectives on the fundamentals of life, on the fears of mortality that confronted them as they still confront us.

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