very front, rides Guro Rysserova, often called Guro Åsgard, who is "big and horrid, her horse black and called Skokse (...)" The names (Norwegian: 'noisy riders', 'The Ride of Asgard'), and or (Swedish: 'the hunt of Odin' or 'wild hunt') are also attested. Europe In the Welsh folklore, was depicted as a wild huntsman riding a demon horse who hunts souls at night along with a pack of white-bodied and red-eared 'dogs of hell'. In Arthurian legends, he is the king of the Underworld who makes sure that the imprisoned devils do not destroy human souls. A comparable Welsh folk myth is known as (Welsh: 'hounds of Annwn'). In France, the 'Host' was known in Latin sources as , and in Old French as (the 'household or retinue of Hellequin'). The Old French name was probably borrowed from Middle English (Old English ) by the Romance-speaking Norman invaders of Britain. Other similar figures appear in the French folklore, such as , a hunter who chased with dogs in the forest of Fontainebleau, and a Poitou tradition where a hunter who has faulted by hunting on Sunday is condemned to redeem himself by hunting during the night, along with its French Canadian version the . In West Slavic Central Europe it is known as or (Czech: 'wild hunt', 'baiting'), dzëwô/dzëkô jachta (Kashubian: 'wild hunt'), Dziki Gon or (Polish), Дзiкае Паляванне (Belarusian: 'wild hunt') and (Slovene: 'the wild hunting party' or 'wild hunt'). Other variations of the same folk myth are ('Dead hunt'), ('infernal hunt'), or ('wild hunt') in Italy; (from , Galician: 'the old army'), , and ('troop, company') in Galicia; in Asturias; ('troop of ghosts') in León; and ('war company') or ('deadly retinue') in Extremadura. In the Netherlands and Flanders (in northern Belgium), the Wild Hunt is known as the Buckriders (Dutch: Bokkenrijders) and was used by gangs of highwaymen for their advantage in the 1700s. Historiography The concept of the Wild Hunt was first documented by the German folklorist Jacob Grimm, who first published it in his 1835 book Deutsche Mythologie. It was in this work that he popularized the term Wilde Jagd ("Wild Hunt") for the phenomenon. Grimm's methodological approach was rooted in the idea – common in nineteenth-century Europe – that modern folklore represented a fossilized survival of the beliefs of the distant past. In developing his idea of the Wild Hunt, he mixed together recent folkloric