Storm demons or weather-sprites. (Scandinavian mythology.)
“Though valour never should be scorned.
Yet now the storm rules wide;
By now again to live returned
Iʹll wager Ham and Heyd.”
Frithiof Saga, lay xi.
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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.
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