"It was their [the Icelanders'] belief that the higher the smoke
rose in the air the more
glorious
would the burnt man be in heaven.
Beowulf
3124-3125. S. proposes:
ēode eahta sum under inwit-hrōf
hilderinca: sum on handa bær, etc.
--_Beit._ ix. 144.
l. 3136. H.-So. corrects (after B.) to æðeling_c_, the MS. having _e_.
l. 3145.
"It was their [the Icelanders'] belief that the higher the smoke
rose in the air the more
glorious
would the burnt man be in heaven.
"--
_Ynglinga Saga_, 10 (quoted by E.). Cf. the funeral pyre of Herakles.
