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.†
pyre = a pile of wood or other burnable material
- 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:
a pile of wood or other burnable material -- especially to burn a dead body as in a funeral rite