在爱尔兰发现的单一的维京时代银发现也引发了一个问题:埋葬银蹄的目的是什么。海盗袭击的威胁将足以埋葬这些人，以保护后来的财富，但并没有被收回。这是一个看似合理的解释，但也有其他可能的原因，为什么这些人被埋葬，然后没有恢复。有一种理论认为，维京时代的异教徒认为，死者生前需要财富，而这正是他生前埋葬的宝藏。然而，这个故事是在斯堪的那维亚半岛的基督教化之后很久才写成的，因此它对它的准确性也不确定。埋葬猪的另一个可能的原因是为了保护银的一般(没有特定的入侵威胁)，这样他们就可以及时地用银奖励他们的追随者。这种财富和权力的展示也可能导致埋藏银，以消除它们的流通，为他人创造一个谈话点。
美国缅因论文代写:海盗袭击的威胁
Single Viking age silver finds in Ireland also appear which raises the question of what the purpose of burying silver hoards was. The threat of Viking raids would be sufficient for the burial of hoards in order to protect the wealth which could be later, but was not, reclaimed. This is a plausible explanation however there are other possible reasons why hoards were buried and then not recovered. One theory is that pagans in the Viking Age believed that the deceased would need riches in the afterlife which were the treasures he had buried whilst still alive. However this story was written long after the Christianisation of Scandinavia and so it in uncertain about its accuracy. Another possible reason for burying hoards was in order to protect silver generally (without specific threat of invasion) by leaders so that they could in time reward their followers with silver. This display of wealth and power could also have lead to hoards of silver being buried in order to eliminate them from circulation, creating a talking point for others.
