# Are viking funerals legal?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-viking-funerals-legal/693338 "2014-07-17T04:34:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-viking-funerals-legal/693338/21 "2014-07-22T23:23:56Z")

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The ground is too swampy in New Orleans to bury people in holes in the ground, so they construct above-ground tombs to put corpses in instead. This is surely true of many other locations as well, but New Orleans is the most prominent example (partly because every tour guide in the city mentions this fact).

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