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,hat of the transilionallife of the newly buried corpse. with the romantic fascination with
death, the exaltation of its physical beauty, the dissolving work of nature, and the reunion
of all lovers in an afterlife not necessarily Christian: one in which lives on all eanhly
affection. I
This new lUming point in the western history of death, however, shows continuity
with the past, and uncovers yet another facet of Newfoundland tradition. Belief and song
yield most of the insights into "thy death" locally, as their expressions focus on the
resolution of the deepest mourning. Thus the two following chapters. the one dC