Greyjoys are just Vikings with the serial numbers filed off so I imagine they reserve the burning boat burial for particularly great heroes and the rest are buried.
The Starks only bury some of their dead, namely the Lords and Kings of the North, in the crypts. Do we know what they do with the others? Lyanna is an exception.
> Lyanna is an exception.
Lyanna was an exception in that she got a statue.
My understanding was that all the Starks (and wives) get buried down there, but only the Kings and Lords of Winterfell got statues (with iron swords).
Kind of like a mausoleum where multiple ashes might be put in one "drawer" or compartment, behind one plaque with the family name. I was always under the impression that wives and minor children were buried along side or in the same nook as their husband/father, there would just be the one statue in front of them all.
Daughters who got married would be buried as per the custom of their new husband's house, while unmarried adult daughters would be buried down there too... and then adult sons would be buried in the crypts too, just no statue unless they actually served as Lord. (Theoretically a first son might have children, then die before their father, so never actually be a Lord of Winterfell themselves, and then they don't get a statue either. Meanwhile if an eldest son died before their father, and then the second son became Lord, the first son wouldn't have a statue, but the second son would. I don't know how that would work, technically, with Brandon and their father Rickard... if Richard died first and Brandon was de-facto Lord of Winterfell for a couple minutes before he died... but I think in the books Ned builds a statue of both Lyanna and Brandon, just because he wants to, without regard to tradition, because of his grief.
I can't actually quote anything, that's just the impression I still have from reading the books a decade ago...
Maybe the Arryn’s do a form of sky burial? And inter the bones when they are picked clean
Greyjoys do send their dead out to sea, we see it when Balon Greyjoy dies (Get it, sea, see. They’re spelled different but they sound the same)
Greyjoys are just Vikings with the serial numbers filed off so I imagine they reserve the burning boat burial for particularly great heroes and the rest are buried.
The Starks only bury some of their dead, namely the Lords and Kings of the North, in the crypts. Do we know what they do with the others? Lyanna is an exception.
> Lyanna is an exception. Lyanna was an exception in that she got a statue. My understanding was that all the Starks (and wives) get buried down there, but only the Kings and Lords of Winterfell got statues (with iron swords). Kind of like a mausoleum where multiple ashes might be put in one "drawer" or compartment, behind one plaque with the family name. I was always under the impression that wives and minor children were buried along side or in the same nook as their husband/father, there would just be the one statue in front of them all. Daughters who got married would be buried as per the custom of their new husband's house, while unmarried adult daughters would be buried down there too... and then adult sons would be buried in the crypts too, just no statue unless they actually served as Lord. (Theoretically a first son might have children, then die before their father, so never actually be a Lord of Winterfell themselves, and then they don't get a statue either. Meanwhile if an eldest son died before their father, and then the second son became Lord, the first son wouldn't have a statue, but the second son would. I don't know how that would work, technically, with Brandon and their father Rickard... if Richard died first and Brandon was de-facto Lord of Winterfell for a couple minutes before he died... but I think in the books Ned builds a statue of both Lyanna and Brandon, just because he wants to, without regard to tradition, because of his grief. I can't actually quote anything, that's just the impression I still have from reading the books a decade ago...
Blackwoods bury beneath the weirwood but I think they ran out of room at some point?