Martin Puhvel, in ‘The Blithe-Hearted Morning Raven in Beowulf,’ gives the example of Sigrun’s joy/happiness (fegin/fain) being likened to that of Odin’s Ravens ‘when they learn of slaughter, warm flesh, or dewy-feathered, they see the brow of day.’ Helgaqvioa Hundingsbana onnor(HHII) 43).
ELN 10 (1973): 243-7 : quoted in Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill
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