Beowulf

What are the funeral pratices?

Beowulf pages 75-77

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Bodies are cremated or placed on a pyre.

"Nor could they, when morning came, the death-weary Dane's people, cremate him in fire nor place on a pyre that beloved man; She carried off the body... "

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