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DYRRHACHIUM

Volume 8 · 95 words · 1860 Edition

in Ancient Geography. See Epaminondas, and Durazzo.

**DYS-E**, in Scandinavian Mythology, inferior goddesses, whose province it was to convey the souls of such as died in battle to the abode of Odin, which was called Valhalla or the hall of slaughter, where they were to drink, with him and their other gods, in cups formed of the skulls of their enemies, a kind of malt liquor called cervisia. The Dyse conveyed those who died a natural death to Hela, the goddess of hell, where they were tormented with hunger, thirst, and every kind of evil.