 Richard North says that the description of a raven flying over the Egyptian army ( glossed as <unk> <unk> ) may have been directly influenced by the Old Norse concept of Valhalla , the usage of wælcyrge in De laudibus <unk> may represent a loan or loan @-@ translation of Old Norse valkyrja , but the Cotton Cleopatra A. iii and the Corpus Glossary instances " appear to show an Anglo @-@ Saxon conception of wælcyrge that was independent of contemporary Scandinavian influence " . 
