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Svalʹin

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The dashboard placed by the gods before the sun-car to prevent the earth from being burnt up. The word means “cooling.” (Scandinavian mythology.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.