Brewer's: Thuig

or Tuig (Norse). The mounds raised by the old Scandinavians where their courts were held. The word is met with in Iceland, in the Shetlands, and elsewhere in Scotland.

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