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Lyke-Wake Dirge
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index. "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is sometimes considered a ballad, but unlike a ballad it is lyric rather than narrative.
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Lyke Wake Walk
The walk takes its name from the "Lyke-Wake Dirge", probably Yorkshire's oldest surviving dialect verse, which is about watching over the wake of the corpse
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lykewake
ˈlyke-wake, ˈlykewake (ˈlaɪkweɪk) Also 4, 9 liche-wake, 6, 9 lyk(e)wa(i)ke, 6–7 like-, lyke-walk, 8–9 lake-wake, 9 lychwake. Cf. late-wake. [f. lyke, lich + wake n.] The watch kept at night over a dead body.c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2100 Ne how that lych wake was yholde Al thilke nyght,..kepe I nat t...
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Willie's Lyke-Wake
"Willie's Lyke-Wake" is Child ballad 25.
Synopsis
Willie sets up his wake and lies in his winding cloth. See also
List of Child Ballads
References
External links
Willie's Lyke-Wake
Child Ballads
Year of song unknown
Songwriter unknown
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Lychgate
, a night watch over a corpse (see Lyke-Wake Dirge). Examples
See also
Corpse road
Church porch
Lich
Lyke-Wake Dirge
References
External links
A restoration of a lych gate at Houghton-le-Spring's
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lich
▪ I. lich Obs. exc. arch. and in Comb. (lɪtʃ) Forms: α. 1–2 l{iacu}c, 4–5 liche, lyche, 6 lytche, 7, 9 litch, 3–7, 9 lich, lych; in comb. 5 lege-, 6–9 leech-, 9 leach- (see also lich-gate, lich-owl). pl. 1 l{iacu}c, 3, 5 liches. β. 2–5 lik(e, (4 lijk), 7, 9 like, lyke. pl. 9 likes. [OE. l{iacu}c str...
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Dirge
Among the earliest was a pre-Reformation funeral lament from the Cleveland area of north-east Yorkshire, England, known as the Lyke-Wake Dirge. Bysshe Shelley
"Dirge for Fidele", by William Shakespeare from Cymbeline, set to music several times, including by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi
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Bedlam Born
Although Steeleye Span didn't get around to recording "Lyke-Wake Dirge" until 2002, this medieval song about purgatory was the introduction of their first
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Lich
See also
Lyke-Wake Dirge
Koschei
Mumm-Ra
Nazgûl
Thulsa Doom
Voldemort
Wight
Wraith
Skeletor
References
External links
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Zero She Flies
Manuscript" – 4:45
"Black Hill" – 1:22
"Anna" – 1:47
"Room of Roots" – 3:52
"Zero She Flies" – 5:35
"Stormy Night" – 3:29
"News from Spain" – 6:05
"Lyke-Wake
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The Gay Goshawk
The hero who feigns death to draw a timid maiden is less common, but still often appears as in "Willie's Lyke-Wake", Child ballad 25.
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Brig of Dread
The "Brig o' Dread" is an important element in The Lyke-Wake Dirge, an old Northern English waking song.
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Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
The title was suggested to Derleth by Lin Carter and is taken from the Lyke-Wake Dirge.
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