grave mound

The grave mound would not be obliterated to hide it from sorcerers, they were told.

The Wife's dwelling is further described as an eordsele (29a), which has only two other occurrences, both also describing the lair of the dragon in Beowulf (2515, 2410), widely acknowledged to be an old heathen burial mound.(16) It is widely recognized that for the Germanic peoples the grave mound also had strong sacred and mythic associations.(17) To be sure, some recent critics have also propounded elaborate, alternative speculations about the Wife's dwelling, claiming variously that it is a natural cave,(18) a sunken-featured building,(19) and a souterrain (an artificial underground chamber).(20) We hope as our discussion develops to show that such interpretations rest upon a fundamental misapprehension of the text.

They'd been drinking, then they started throwing stones at headstones, having a mud fight from grave mounds. That is the type of behaviour that we're trying to change the culture of and have a more respectful and dignified atmosphere within the cemeteries."

The grave mounds and numbers of the unnamed dead were silent testimony to a horrific reality.

The greater the dead person's wealth and social status, the higher their earthen grave mounds and the larger their graves tend to be.

They lived among the earthen complexes, the effigies, and the grave mounds. They knew earthworks existed, understood they were made by their ancestors, and did not disturb them.

The crooked crucifixes, rusty and broken, righted themselves over the grave mounds and threw holy water on one another.

The team found grave mounds nearby and obsidian tools -- indicating some complicated trade was going on.