Both Uses of
pyre
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Ebbutt)
- Bid thou my warriors after my funeral pyre Build me a burial-cairn high on the sea-cliff's head; It shall for memory tower up on Hronesness, So that the seafarers Beowulf's Barrow Henceforth shall name it, they who drive far and wide Over the mighty flood their foamy keels.†
- Now our dear lord Beowulf bade me greet you from him, and bid you to make for him, after his funeral pyre, a great and mighty cairn, even as he was the most glorious of men in his lifetime.†
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Definition:
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(pyre) a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite