All 4 Uses of
pyre
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
- All on the pyre were plain to see the gory sark, the gilded swine-crest, boar of hard iron, and athelings many slain by the sword: at the slaughter they fell.†
*
- It was Hildeburh's hest, at Hnaef's own pyre the bairn of her body on brands to lay, his bones to burn, on the balefire placed, at his uncle's side.†
- — Now haste is best, that we go to gaze on our Geatish lord, and bear the bountiful breaker-of-rings to the funeral pyre.†
- Round brands of the pyre a wall they built, the worthiest ever that wit could prompt in their wisest men.†
Definition:
-
(pyre) a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite