tatteredbanners:In Danish folklore, a helhest (Danish “Hel horse”) is a three-legged horse associate
tatteredbanners:In Danish folklore, a helhest (Danish “Hel horse”) is a three-legged horse associated with Hel. The horse figures into a number Danish phrases as recent as the 19th century, such as “han går som en helhest” (“he walks like a hel-horse”) for a male who “blunders in noisily,” and the helhest is sometimes described as going “around the churchyard on his three legs, he fetches Death.” In Schleswig, a phrase is recorded that, in time of plague, “die (corrected by Grimm from der) Hel rides about on a three-legged horse, destroying men.” Jacob Grimm theorizes that the helhest was originally the steed of the goddess Hel. -- source link
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