Link: Viking Funeral
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: Most of the people I talked to, thought that
: the Reigning Couple would be burried - or
: placed - inside the sarcophagus, and the
: discussion about Prince Henrik's decision
: not to be burried in Roskilde was about
: "his side" being empty. But the
: Queen will actually be burried - or placed
: in a coffin - in the crypt below the chapel.
: So the sarcophagus not a sarcophagus but a
: "grave monument" - a sulpture -
: and a symbol of Margrethe's reign.
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" Queen will actually be burried - or placed
: in a coffin - in the crypt below the chapel."
I understand now. Whew!!!! I thought she was going to be on view to everyone after her death. That would be TOO artitistic even for the Queen of Denmark. If I were the Queen of a Scandinavian country, I would wish to be put on a small wooden ship on a pile of lumber, then family and friends could pull it out to a legal part of the ocean on large party boat. The guests would eat and drink and SKOAL all over the place and as the night drew near shoot the small funeral boat with tar infused arrows. Very viking. I have always considered Her Majesty as a "Viking" Queen.
Illigitimus non carborundum"1