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Odhærir

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The mead or nectar made of Kvasir’s blood, kept in three jars. The second of these jars is called Sohn, and the Bohn. Probably the nectar is the “spirit of poetry.” (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.

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Ochiltree (Edie)
Octavian
Octavo
Ocypus
Od
Odd Numbers
Odd and Even
Odd’s or Od’s
Odds
Ode
Odhærir
Odin
Odium Theologicum
ODoherty (Sir Morgan)
Odor Lucri (Latin)
Odorico (in Orlando Furioso)
Odour
Odour of Sanctity (In the)
Odrysium Carmen
Odur
Odyle