Many a time I had heard how in long ago days men would set the body of their dead chief afloat in his favourite ship, with all his treasure and war gear, and all else that a chief might need in Asgard; and so light his balefire on board, and let him pass to a sea grave beyond the ken of men in strange magnificence.
"A Sea Queen's Sailing"
Charles Whistler
Nay, even such a birth hath Venus of her own, a second Paris, another balefire for Troy towers reborn.
"The Aeneid of Virgil"
Virgil