- persons. Then,
dragging it
beyond the village, they
speedily constructed a
funeral pile; and upon one of them
saying that the
pestilential body
would not burn...
- that one of the sons of the wang-na
watches at the temple, near the
funeral pile,
night and day, till the body is consumed; the
ashes of the consumed...
- poet
Snorri Sturluson, she
launched the
largest of all
ships at Baldr's
funeral after the Æsir gods were
unable to
budge the vessel.
Hyrrokkin was a relatively...
- that if his
books "were all
burnt as the
grandest of
Suttees on his
funeral pile, it
would be only like
cutting down an oak
after its
acorns have sown...
- replied: Be it so. This
burning of
widows is your custom;
prepare the
funeral pile. But my
nation has also a custom. When men burn
women alive we hang them...
- replied: "Be it so. This
burning of
widows is your custom;
prepare the
funeral pile. But my
nation has also a custom. When men burn
women alive we hang them...
-
injured isle /Because his
spirit dared disdain/ To
light his country's
funeral pile?" In "On
Robert Emmet's Grave" S****ey
proposed that,
because unknown...
-
which did
through life his woes beguile,
Supplied the old man with a
funeral pile. — Alcaeus of
Mytilene Pliny the
Elder described a
story of a boy who...
-
Norse funerals, or the
burial customs of
Viking Age
North Germanic Nor**** (early
medieval Scandinavians), are
known both from
archaeology and from historical...
-
century hence: if they were all
burnt as the
grandest of
Suttees on his
funeral pile, it
would be only like
cutting down an oak
after its
acorns have sown...
