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The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.
" A similar view of Dobrawa's burial place was expressed earlier, in 1843, by Edward Raczyński in his study Wspomnienia Wielkopolski to jest województw poznańskiego, kaliskiego i gnieźnieńskiego ( Memories of the Greater Poland districts of Poznań, Kalisz and Gniezno ).
Indeed, there are many sites of similar forts in the area, and Stone Age and Bronze Age burial mounds are common throughout the area.
The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.
In 1141, she escaped Devizes in a similar manner, by disguising herself as a corpse and being carried out for burial.
* Crypts – often, though not always, for interment ; similar to burial vaults but usually for more general public interment
* Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred
IPN ’ s forensic examiner, based on a similar exhumation at Katyn where Stalin ’ s aides had murdered 22, 000 Polish prisoners-of-war in 1940, estimated that the burial site in Jedwabne contained between 300 and 400 victims.
A similar belief in the doctrines of the Kabbalah is expressed in a sermon in which he urged early burial, because as long as the body remains unburied evil spirits have power over it.
Yayoi pottery, burial mounds, and food preservation were discovered to be very similar to the pottery of southern Korea.
Gaya confederacy region of the Korean peninsula had burial mounds similar to the kofun.
At first they were used both for burial and the memorial services and celebrations of the anniversaries of Christian martyrs ( following similar Roman customs ).
The approximately contemporary Beaker culture had similar burial traditions, and together they covered most of Western and Central Europe.
In Orkney there is a similar folktale linked to the burial mound of Salt Knowe adjacent to the Ring of Brodgar.
The inscription inside the archway is similar to the one at Tyne Cot, with the addition of a prefatory Latin phrase: " Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam-Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death ".
Also of interest, many of the details of the late Hohokam burial patterns were very similar to the tradition practiced by the historic Tohono and Akimel O ' odham.
Some wooden objects in the burial chamber seem to have suffered water damage, most notably the coffin, bier, and boxes ; however, the elements of the gilded shrine appear to have been reasonably solid .< ref name =" bell p. 132 "> Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 132 </ ref > Moisture is also the likely cause of the discoloration visible on some of the faience objects, although other, similar objects appear unaffected.
An earthenware burial jar, called the " Calatagan Pot ," found in Batangas is inscribed with characters strikingly similar to Baybayin, and is claimed to have been inscribed ca.
Then in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev admitted that the NKVD had indeed executed the Poles and confirmed two other burial sites similar to the site at Katyn: Mednoye and Piatykhatky.
A smaller but similar event marked the burial of another of those killed, W. B. Curner, which took place in January.
It can also refer to a specific pacarina ( burial place ), or a place of origin similar in definition to the origin places in the North American Southwest known as the place of emergence or Sipapu / Shipapu among the peoples which used kivas for worship ( especially among the people commonly referred to as Pueblo ).
At the former burial site of the unknown soldier, a grave marker similar to the other headstones in the Cabaret-Rouge Cemetery has been placed on the now-empty grave.
A similar group of chambered long barrows contain stone burial chambers, constructed from slabs.
They are similar to Wedge-shaped gallery graves in that in plan they have a narrow entrance that widens out inside into a burial chamber.

similar and customs
180 BC, he describes them then as " similar in language and customs " to the Scordisci, a tribe of Illyria described as Celtic by Strabo ( although he adds that they had mingled with Illyrians and Thracians ).
The 7th-century Visigothic aristocracy saw itself as bearers of a particular Gothic consciousness and as guardians of old traditions such as Germanic namegiving ; probably these traditions were on the whole restricted to the family sphere ( Hispano-Roman nobles did service for Visigothic nobles already in the 5th century and the two branches of Spanish aristocracy had fully adopted similar customs two centuries later ).
The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.
The madh ' hab he observed was Imam Al-Shafi ‘ i, with similar customs as he had seen in coastal India especially among the Mappila Muslim, who were also the followers of Imam Al-Shafi ‘ i. Ibn Battuta then sailed to Malacca, Vietnam, the Philippines and finally Quanzhou in Fujian province, China.
Tradition is usually contrasted with the goal of modernity and should be differentiated from customs, conventions, laws, norms, routines, rules and similar concepts.
Tradition should be differentiated from customs, conventions, laws, norms, routines, rules and similar concepts.
" Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs ...
Known as Oorlams, these Khoisan adopted Boer customs and spoke a language similar to Afrikaans.
The Hellenes had similar customs.
The nomadic lifestyles, garb, customs, religion, and culture are regarded as similar.
After modifications similar to that of former Concourse C during the 1960s, it was completely rebuilt in the 1980s and connected to the immigration and customs hall in Concourse E, allowing it to handle international arrivals.
Although the substantive content is largely similar, some states have made structural modifications to conform to local customs.
# maintain similar customs and traditions, despite centuries of internecine warfare and extensive and far-reaching migrations ( Bormanshinov, 1990: 3 ).
These tribes spoke different languages ​​ but their customs were similar.
The Khmer-speaking minority and Kuy ( Suai ), who live in the south of Isan, speak dialects and follow customs more similar to those of Cambodia than either the Thai people or the Lao people.
The Tai peoples follow their traditional religion as well as Theravadin Buddhism, and maintain similar customs and festivals ( such as the Sankrant ) to the other Tai-speaking peoples.
Olof Lagercrantz, the Swedish critic and publicist, had a similar point of view, calling Swedenborg's theological writing " a poem about a foreign country with peculiar laws and customs ".
In October 1769, a mob in Boston attacked a Customs service sailor the same way, and a few similar attacks followed through 1774 ( the tarring and feathering of customs worker John Malcolm received particular attention in 1774 ).
The Iowa have had customs similar to those of the other Siouan-speaking tribes of the Great Plains, such as the Omaha, Ponca and Osage.
In addition, mourning customs similar to those applicable to the shiva period immediately following the death of a close relative are traditionally followed for at least part of the day, including sitting on low stools, refraining from work and not greeting others.
For similar reasons it has preserved many old customs and costumes, those of the women being very elaborate and picturesque, while the herdsmen have retained their festival attire of red waistcoats, embroidered braces and canary-coloured shorts.
This was one of several incidents when a Boston merchant resisted a search with a seemingly exact knowledge of the law ; John Hancock would act in a similar manner when customs officials attempted to search his ship Lydia in 1768.
The people are nomads and their customs are generally similar to those of the people of Kangju.

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