THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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INHUMATION, CREMATION, AND THE SOUL. 515
and brought on to the pyre with their property. He said that
every dead man should come to Valhalla with such gear as he
had on the fire
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he should also have the enjoyment of what he
had himself buried in the earth. But the ashes were to be
carried out to sea, or buried down in the earths A howe was
to be raised as a memorial to noblemen and for all such as
;
had achieved any distinction baata-stones should be set up.
Animals and even slaves were thrown on the pyre as well as
other forms of property. Thus at the funeral of Sigurdr and
Brynhildr two hawks and a number of men and women servants
were burned.
At the obsequies of Haraldr Hilditonn " Hringr had a great
howe made, and had the body of Haraldr laid in the chariot
and drivtai therein to the howe with the horse which Haraldr
had had in the battle. The horse was then killed. Then king
Hringr took the saddle on which he had himself ridden, and
gave it to his kinsman, king Haraldr, and besought him to do
whichever ha wished, wjiether he wished to ride or drive to
A'alhalla." So too at the burning of Balder the hei'o's hoi'se
and the ring Draupnir were laid on the pyre.
Odin's (loctrin(? that everything burned wdth the dead woidd
pass to the soul's eternal resting-})hice accords with that of the
Homeric poems, as shown by the funeral of Patroclus, and the
last woi'ds of the shade; of F]lpeiior,
who begs that his arms may
be burned with him. Th(! weapons and oi-nameiits injured bv
fire which arc found in the (^'tMuatiou graves of Hallstatt. at
Sesto C.'alende and elsewhere, dernonsti'ate that the creniationists
of central Kurope had a siniilar Ixdief.
The soul passed away to ()(lin to \'alhalla, where tlu;
de[)arted hero " di'ank ale on the high seat among the Aesii-,"
whithei' his kindi'ed had gone befoiu'. 'i'hus Sigmnndr spake,
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when h