"This is a finer use than usual of the common poetic
attendants
of
a battle, the wolf, the eagle, and the raven.
Beowulf
_ (Hunt.) l. 293.
l. 3022. E. quotes:
"Thai token an harp _gle and game_
And maked a lai and yaf it name."
--_Weber_, l. 358.
and from Percy, "The word _glee_, which peculiarly denoted their art (the
minstrels'), continues still in our own language ... it is to this day used
in a musical sense, and applied to a peculiar piece of composition."
l. 3025.
"This is a finer use than usual of the common poetic
attendants
of
a battle, the wolf, the eagle, and the raven.
The three are here like three
Valkyrie, talking of all that they have done."--Br., p. 57.
l. 3033. Cf. Hunt's _Dan._ l. 731, for similar language.
