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in the battlefield is subtly supplemented by quite frequently used Christian religious images. among
numerous realistic and sometimes even openly naturalistic motives, the much more lyrical poetic parallel
of bullet and bee could be discerned, encountered not only in Lithuanian, but also in Latvian military
songs. a special place in the late Lithuanian military-historical folksongs is occupied by the motives of
the soldiers’ graves, the collective burials in the unhallowed ground, and death without funeral. their
analysis highlighted the relevance between the folkloric images depicting funerals of the slain soldiers
and tending to their graves, created in the folksongs, with the general religious and cultural notions
cherished by the Lithuanian society during the 19 th – the first half of the 20 th century and the funeral
customs as a whole.
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