Trying to imagine a ‘head-clearing voice’ – is it a singing, shouting or speaking voice? Â Or is it just in a resonant timbre? Â And then the ‘big-voiced scullions’, coined by Heaney in memory of big-voiced people he knew called Scullion. Â They somehow sound big-hearted too.
Source: Â Seamus Heaney, Beowulf (London: Faber & Faber, 2000), p. xxvi & 17

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