[nickcarraway]

My body, my pyre?

[wally_bert]

From S.O.B.

https://youtu.be/8jIaPO0UliU

[matthew fuller]

Final scene and closing credits from The Vikings by Richard Fleischer (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LClTjcyNJSI

[txeagle]

Well damn.....I was kind of banking on having one of those shortly after my 90th birthday.

Which if everything goes according to plan involves an envious romantic rival and a gunshot......

[Track9]

Maybe it’s the boat they object to.

[GreyHoundSailor]

My pond, my boat - I can do what I want.

[JonPreston]

That’s too bad. There’s an entire football team in Minnesota that should be buried.

[gundog]

Land of 10,000 lakes is missing out.

[bankwalker]

The viking funeral is when they take the hot women from their male enemies, put the males on a ship, set it on fire, then push it out to sea.

[Farmerbob]

No mention of excarnation. I’m still good to go.

[mass55th]

When my youngest son was in his 30’s, and living closer to me, I told him that if he died, I was going to give him a Viking funeral, because there was no freaking way I was going to clean out his apartment.

[GingisK]

In our youth my brothers and I were always trying things. Flaming arrows did not escape our attention. We discovered that those supposed weapons are little more than Hollywood crap. Scenario one: when a flaming arrow is released for flight, they are immediately snuffed out. Scenario two: when a difficult to snuff flaming agent is used on the arrow, the arrows drop to the ground after flying a very short distance due to the amazing air-drag of the flames. Scenario three: make an arrow warhead that ignites only upon impact. (This works, but is not "Hollywood Pretty")

We tried pretty much everything. The arrows were wrapped with cotton rope or cloth and then soaked in motor oil, vegetable oil, olive oil, turpentine, gasoline, Coleman fuel, lighter fluid, and even acetone. We had fifty-five pound draw weight re-curve bows. Always the same results.

Shooting an arrow that delivered an ember into grass or straw works if you wait patiently for the fire. It is not pretty or in any way cool.

Oh, don't go into caves with the good old Hollywood railroad flare. The sulfur dioxide fumes really spoil the adventure.

[jmacusa]

So... does this mean no suttee?

I thought we were supposed to ‘’celebrate diversity’’ and ‘’all cultures were equal’’.

[Manic_Episode]

Viking Funeral Minnesota style:

Have the Viking funeral in the winter with the departed yellow yarn braid adorned warrior up on top of his fish house.

[NormsRevenge]

Come on Baby Light My Pyre!!! (/Doors not)

[NormsRevenge]

Come on Baby Light My Pyre!!! (/Doors not)