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A LykeWake Dirge Traditional English SongSpoken Verse with text
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A Lyke-Wake Dirge ~ Traditional English Spoken Verse with text • Jump to: navigation, search • 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 title refers to the watch over the dead between the death and funeral, known as a wake. Lyke is an obsolete word meaning a dead body, 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, bodies were 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 ). • seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyke-Wak... • also see Anima Sola ( picture ) • Based on Roman Catholic tradition, the Anima Sola or Lonely Soul is an image depicting a soul in purgatory, popular in Latin America, as well as much of Andalusia, Naples and Palermo. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Sola • video produced and copyright to Robert Nichol 2013
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