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The four men of Torvaldsland carried the huge body of Ivar Forkbeard up the steps of the altar, on the crossed spears. - (Marauders of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #321)

Ivar Forkbeard's body was not anointed as it was carried through the gate in the rail. The dead need no anointing to enter the sanctuary. Only the living, it is held, can profane the sacred. The four men of Torvaldsland carried the huge body of Ivar Forkbeard up the steps of the altar, on the crossed spears. Then, still beneath its white shroud, they laid it gently on the highest step of the altar. Then the four men fell back, two to each side, heads down. The High Initiate then began to intone a complex prayer in archaic Gorean, to which, at intervals, responses were made by the assembled Initiates, those within the railing originally and now, too, those twelve, still carrying candles, who had accompanied the body from the ship through the dirt streets of Kassau, among the wooden buildings, to the temple. - (Marauders of Gor)