I believe this is true. Vikings were always looking for new farm land because farmable land was getting scarce. I know doubling up on graves are done to this day in Norway, if you don’t pay a maintenance fee on a loved ones grave, they’ll sell the occupied grave and bury someone on top of you (loved one). I witnessed this in Mexico, my mother inlaw, who was born and raised in Mexico, is buried on top of five other human remains, she is incased in cement, level on the ground.

Bobby Fears – A couple of good places for you to start: & The first one is The National Norwegian American Museum and Heritage Center, the second one is Norwegian American Genealogy Center. You might even find a Sons of Norway Lodge close to where you live.

Norway has digitized a lot of records which can be seen online. Birth, conformation, marriage, death, census and emigration. All you need is name, county and birthdate to search.

I, too, have the Irish/Viking DNA combo. However, I wouldn’t call it ‘marrying’, necessarily. The Vikings engaged in slaving and Dublin was a major slave market. They didn’t bring slavery to Ireland, it was active before they arrived, just to be clear.

Nope, there are plenty of area to put the burials on. The graves in viking age Scandinavia were not put in the arable land, but even i areas with plenty of arable land, there are also plenty of small hills or forests scattered bascially everywhere, even close to the farms – and on these areas (plentyful!) the graves were put. Lack of land is not in any way an explanation for this. /archaeologist, specialized in the viking age and excavated plenty of viking age graves