Elegies

Piercing flesh with a sound of twinge cries of death was sung and so begins the washing of body wash away the earthly filth so that the departed may be as while as a swan dressed in white clothes and carried home dignity your speeches and cries for those who are dead still hear them may wailer cry for the dead wake a great feast combined tales of life singing and prayers for the dead before the great journey cry for the dead wailer but no disturbance of peace at night take greetings to the underworld tell your stories of life...