Wold, Wild Hunt And Milky Way

Three Hearts And Three Lions.

"Moonlight flowed over the wold, gray, shadow-barred, glinting on rime."
-CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE, p. 149.

Every wold description here is worth quoting.

"Far and faint, at the very edge of hearing, the horns blew. They had the noise of wind and sea and great beating wings, a hawk voice, a raven voice. And Holger knew that the Wild Hunt was out and after him."
-CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR, p. 150.

The Hunt, barely audible, sounds like wind, sea, wings, hawk and raven because it is all those things plus human imagination. See Roots Of Paganism.

"Calling, as he used to call, faint and far away,
"In Sherwood, in Sherwood, about the break of day."
-see here.

(I previously quoted from "Sherwood" in Brake. See also Unexpected Connections.)

There is another description of the Milky Way.