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Lyke-Wake Dirge
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English song that tells of the soul's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory. Though the song is from the Christian era and features references to Christianity much of the symbolism is thought to be of heathen origin.〔''The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Part 3, Volume 5'', 1983. Page. 533〕〔''Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of world religions'' by Wendy Doniger, Merriam-Webster, 1999, ISBN 0-87779-044-2, ISBN 978-0-87779-044-0. Page 282.〕〔''Gods and Myths of Northern Europe'' by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, Penguin Books, 1964 Page. 231〕〔''A glossary of the Cleveland dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical'' by John Christopher Atkinson, J.R. Smith, 1868. Page. 601〕
==The title==
The title refers to the act of watching over the dead between the death and funeral, known as a wake. "Lyke" is an obsolete word meaning a corpse, and is related to the German word ''Leiche'' and the Dutch word ''lijk'', which have the same meaning. It survives in modern English in the expression ''lychgate'', the roofed gate at the entrance to a churchyard, where, in former times, a dead body was placed before burial, and the fictional undead monster type lich. "Lyke-wake" could also be from the Norse influence on the Yorkshire dialect: the contemporary Norwegian and Swedish words for "wake" are still "likvake" and "likvaka" respectively ("lik" and "vaka"/"vake" with the same meanings as previously described for "lyke" and "wake").
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