Brewer's: Hall of Odin

The rocks, such as Halleberg and Hunneberg, from which the Hyperboreans, when tired of life, used to cast themselves into the sea; so called because they were the vestibule of the Scandinavian Elysium.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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