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ODIN'S F

Volume 15 · 73 words · 1815 Edition

ODIN'S Fire. We have this account of it in Gough's Camden. "In Evie parish, in the Orkneys, near the sea, are some rocks, which frequently in the night appear on fire; and the church of St Michael there was often seen full of lights, called fires sent by St Odin to guard their tombs, but now ceased. This may be a meteor, or some inflammable matter on the cliffs, as at Charmouth, Dorset."