This last recalls the esteem our Teuton ancestors had for their scalds, or polishers of language, when poetry and music were linked together by the voice and harp of minstrelsy, and when the divine right to fill the office of bard meant the divine faculty to invent a few heroic stanzas to meet a dramatic occasion.
One more well-known British lullaby—
"Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting
To get a little hare skin
To wrap the baby bunting in."
The more modern version gives "rabbit skin."
FOOTNOTES:
[B] Times' report, February 10th, 1897.
[C] F. Spiegel.
[D] Welcker, Griechische Götterlehre, i. 551.
[E] Tylor.
[F] Wagner introduced the music to which it is sung in his Siegfried idyll.