Allusions To The Song
The Lyke Wake Walk is a 40-mile walking route across the North York Moors, first popularised in 1955 and named after the Lyke Wake Dirge.
The Lyke Wake Dirge was also invoked in Antonia Forest's 1959 novel End of Term and Diana Wynne Jones's novel Deep Secret, When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson, as well as Neil Gaiman's 1999 fantasy Neverwhere and Arnold Wesker's 1962 play Chips With Everything. It is used, with one major modification, by members of the Chantry Guild in Gordon Dickson's 1962 science fiction novel Necromancer. There, in keeping with their philosophy of universal destruction, the Chantry Guild changes the second refraine from "And Christe receive thy saule" to "Destruction take thee alle."
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