ship burial
noun
- Archaeology a burial in a wooden ship under a mound. The custom was reserved for those who were particularly honoured in Scandinavia and parts of the British Isles in the pagan Anglo-saxon and Viking periods (6th-11th centuries AD).【考古】船葬（用木船作棺埋葬在坟墩下, 是皈依基督教前的盎格鲁-撒克逊和海盗时期［公元6-11世纪］在斯堪的纳维亚半岛和不列颠群岛的一些岛屿上为那些特别高贵的人保留的风俗）。