"When the winter winds blow and the Yule fires are lit, it is best to
stay indoors, safely shut away from the dark paths and the wild heaths.
Those who wander out by themselves during the Yule-nights may hear a
sudden rustling through the tops of the trees - a rustling that might be
the wind, though the rest of the wood is still.
"But then the
barking of dogs fills the air, and the host of wild souls sweeps down,
fire flashing from the eyes of the black hounds and the hooves of the
black horses"
Kveldulf Hagen Gundarsson (Mountain Thunder)
