If I had relatives on my father’s side,
They would follow behind me.
If I had a blue hawk.
He would scream behind me;
If I had relatives on the Old One’s side,
They would follow behind me.
These changes of colour, variation on hard-and-fast lines, are very frequent and often inappropriate, as with a white horse and a blue horse;[[484]] one form of the change is not far remote from a Germanic kenning:—
O Myrat mine, Myrat mine,
A sea is coming,—
How will you cross it?