A) Horses in Scandinavian mythology ü B) Infectious diseases in the Middle Ages C) The last three books of the seer Nostradamus D) Small flowers that grow on mountainsides
According to E. Cobham Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Doomstead was the horse of the Norns (Fates); Skinfaxi (“shining mane”) was the steed that pulled the car of day; and Sleipnir was Odin’s eight-legged gray horse, which represented the wind that blows from eight directions over land and sea.