After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son? |
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach 16 or wail the death-wail over them. |
The most primitive was called epikedeion, a dirge or coronach, improvised by women over the bodies of the dead. |
When Father Brindle had concluded, the pipers, accompanied by muffled drums, played the coronach as a lament. |
Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach. |
But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them. |