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death-song
[death n. 18 a. Cf. G. todesgesang, earlier † todtengesang.]
A song sung immediately before death, or to commemorate the dead. In U.S. spec. with reference to Indian customs.
1778J. Carver Travels 337 They are then bound to a stake..and obliged..to sing their death-song. 1843American Pioneer II. 225 Four of the missionaries..were then led into the camp of the Delawares, where the death-song was sung over them. 1873J. Miller Life amongst Modocs ii. 21 They will not revisit their own camp..until it is first visited by their priest or medicine man, who chaunts the death-song. 1885H. Sweet Oldest Eng. Texts 149 (title) Bede's Death-song. 1892S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. I. 74 Like an Indian chief, he [sc. Beowulf] sang his death-song. 1947B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 84 Some of the Gros Ventres began to sing their death songs. |