У продовженні статті, присвяченої поховальному обряду могильника Острів, розглянуто поховальний супроводжувальний інвентар із чоловічих
поховань та окремі елементи поховальної практики, як індикатори світогляду громади, котра перебуває на певному етапі християнізації. Чоловічі поховальні комплекси в цілому мають набагато
менше етновизначальних рис, ніж жіночі. Їхній
інвентар скоріше вказує не на конкретну етнічну
групу, а на певний регіон походження традиції —
Скандобалтику та Північну Русь, а також — соціальну спрямованість на дружинну субкультуру.
На це вказують наявність зброї, окремі типи фібул, деталі поясного набору, що мають чисельні
аналогії саме на Півночі Європи й різко дисонують
зі старожитностями Південної Русі. Водночас,
проживання на кордоні зі степом призвело до появи у поховальній практиці окремих предметів, притаманних матеріальній культурі кочовиків.
In the continuation of the paper on a funeral rites
of the Ostriv graveyard the features of burials without
grave goods, burials in coffins fastened with nails, burials
with buckets and the accompanying items of male
burials are considered. Burials without grave goods, as
well as burials in dominiums fastened with nails and
burials in which buckets were placed, can be interpreted
with great care as an indicator of the worldview of a
community that was at a certain stage of Christianization.
Regardless of Christian ideas about the equality
of everyone in the afterlife, there was no imperative
prohibition on burial with objects. After Christianization,
individual objects took on new functions and became
a part of the so-called Arma Cristi (instrument of
the Lord’s Passion — tools for fight against Satan) and
already in this capacity are used in the funeral rite.
Male burial assemblages in general have much less
ethnic indicators than female ones. Rather, their grave
goods point not to a specific ethnic group but to a specific
macro region of the origin of tradition — Scando-
Baltic and Northern Rus as well as to a social focus on
military subculture. This is evidenced by the presence
of weapons, certain types of fibulae, details of the belt
set, which have a lot of parallels just in the North of
Europe and sharply dissonant with the antiquities of
Southern Rus. The presence of weapons was typical for
male burial assemblages of the Ostriv graveyard. The
main type of weapon the battle axes can be considered
of so-called IV type according to A. Kirpichnikov, most
of which were placed near the right knee with the handle
up but other weapons were also discovered — axes
of type III according to A Kirpichnikov and type M according
to Y. Peterson and lancet-shaped spear-heads.
In the burials the elements of a belt set — buckles and
portupey rings — were found. At the same time the absence
of other details of the men’s belt set, first of all,
the applique plates for status belts which have been
worn according to the Orient tradition and became
widespread in the Eastern and Northern Europe during
the Viking Age draws attention. It is notable that
living on the border with the steppe led to the appearance
in the burial practice of certain objects inherent
in the material culture of nomads, first of all, primarily
the single mouth-piece bit.
