Approximately seven per cent of the pagan Viking graves known in Scotland contained horse remains. This article presents a brief summary of the traditional interpretations of horse remains in burials of this period and presents an alternative interpretation of these remains with particular reference to the Viking cemetery at Pierowall, Westray, Orkney Islands which is dated c. AD 850–950. It is argued that the act of horse deposition at Pierowall should be understood in the wider social context of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Scottish Islands during the initial period of west-ward expansion and social and political upheaval. It is in this context that the act of horse burial performed a specific communicative function which served to create and strengthen cultural allegiances with trading groups travelling from the Scandinavian Peninsula towards the western seaboard of Scotland, and into the Irish Sea.

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交易身份：苏格兰仍保留对维京马的其他解释。Pierowall的观点

在苏格兰，异教徒的维京人坟墓中约有7％包含马遗骸。本文简要介绍了这一时期的墓葬中对马遗骸的传统解释，并提出了对这些遗骸的另一种解释，特别是参考了奥克尼群岛韦斯特雷皮耶沃尔（Pierowall）的维京公墓（日期为c）。公元850–950年。有人认为，在西扩和社会政治动荡初期，应该在斯堪的纳维亚半岛和苏格兰群岛的更广泛社会背景下理解皮耶洛沃尔的马匹沉积行为。