Sentence:  Departed spirits do not however make a joyful and immediate entrance into these <WSD>elysian</WSD> fields, but must first slide for the space of five days, or, according to others, for a still longer period, down a rough rock, which the Greenlanders, by a strange contradiction, represent to be quite bloody. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or pertaining to Elysian or Elysium, the location.