A bridge between earth and heaven, this world and the next, features in the mythology of many different peoples. For example, in Norse legends, Bifröst or Bilröst is a burning rainbow bridge between Midgard, the world, and Asgard, the realm of the gods. The Persians believed in a bridge between earth and paradise too. Over the midst of the Moslem hell stretches the bridge Es-Sirat. In the Lyke-Wake Dirge of the English north-country, they sang of "The Brig of Dread." In Java, a bridge leads across the abyss to the dwelling-place of the gods and among many of the American tribes the Milky Way is the bridge to the other world. The Slavs believed in a pathway which led to the other world and, since the journey was long, they put-boots into the coffin, and coins to pay the ferrying across a wide sea, even as the Greeks expected to he carried over the Styx by Charon.