Brewer's: Hymer

The giant in Celtic mythology who took Thor in his boat when that god went to kill the serpent; for which service he was flung by the ears into the sea. (See Giants.)

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