 | 1849 - 224 pages
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 | Smithsonian - 1848
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 | Thomas Wright - 1861 - 554 pages
...size to the celebrity of his deeds. They accordingly raised a mighty funeral pile to burn his corpse ; it was — hung round with helmets, with boards of...Then the heroes, weeping, laid down in the midst the famons chieftain, their dear lord. Then be^an on the hill, the warriors, to awake the mightiest of... | |
 | John M'Arthur - 1861 - 236 pages
...the burning of the body was "Hung round with helmets, With boards of war,* And with bright byrnies,t As he had requested. Then the heroes weeping, Laid...began on the hill The warriors to awake The mightiest funeral iires ; The wood smoke rose aloft, Dark from the fire ; Noisily it went Mingled with weeping."... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1894 - 612 pages
...shall sail afar. BEOWULF, line 5599. They accordingly raised a mighty funeral pile to burn his corpse ; it was hung round with helmets with boards of war (shields) and with bright brynies (coatt of mail), as he had requested. Then the heroes, weeping laid down in the midst the famous... | |
 | 1868 - 560 pages
...The funeral pile having been raised, and hung round with shields, helmets, and coats of mail, "... the heroes, weeping, laid down in the midst the famous chieftain, their dear lord. * It is a singular fact, and worthy of not*, that the two most extensive Saion cemeteries — indeed,... | |
 | Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt - 1870 - 342 pages
...was made. The pile was — " hung round with helmets, with boards of war,* and with bright byrnies, f as he had requested. Then the heroes, weeping, laid...the fire ; noisily it went mingled with weeping." The body of the hero having been consumed by the wood-fire, in the midst of weeping friends, the people... | |
 | Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt - 1870 - 342 pages
...was made. The pile was — " hung round with helmets, with boards of war,* and with bright byrnies, f as he had requested. , Then the heroes, weeping, laid...the fire ; noisily it went mingled with weeping." The body of the hero having been consumed by the wood-fire, in the midst of weeping friends, the people... | |
 | Robert Ward - 1872 - 502 pages
...burnt, according to the custom of the age, with all possible honours. The place of his funeral pile was — " Hung round with helmets, with boards of...the famous chieftain, their dear lord. Then began OD the hill, the warriors to awake the mightiest of funeral fires ; the wood-smoke rose aloft, dark... | |
 | William Ballingall - 1872 - 242 pages
...According to the deeds of your friend, on the place of the funeral pile, the lofty barrow large and famous. Then the heroes weeping laid down in the midst the...warriors to awake the mightiest of funeral fires.' After the burning of the body had been completed, they proceeded to raise 1 A mound over the sea ;... | |
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... as he had requested. Then the heroes, weeping, laid down in the midst the famous chieftain, their dear lord. Then began on the hill, the warriors, to awake the mightiest of funeral fires ; the wood-smoke rose aloft, dark from the fire ; noisily it... 
