Vast monuments of stone or piles of earth were raised above the ashes of the dead.

Scattered relics of the Celtic age are yet visible throughout Europe, in these huge but unsightly memorials.
The German was not ambitious at the grave.

He threw neither garments nor odors upon the funeral pyre, but the arms and the war-horse of the departed were burned and buried with him.
The turf was his only sepulchre, the memory of his valor his only monument.

Even tears were forbidden to the men.

"It was esteemed honorable," says the historian, "for women to lament, for men to remember." The parallel need be pursued no further.