Chapter Brougham's Plaid Trousers to Brunello of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Brumo, a place of worship in Craca (one of the Shetland Isles).

Far from his friends they placed him in the horrid circle of Brumo, where the ghosts of the dead howl round the stone of their fear.—Ossian: Fingal, vi.

Bruncheval “the Bold,” a paynim knight, who tilted with sir Satyrane; both were thrown to the ground together at the first encounter.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, iv. 4 (1596).

Brunello, a deformed dwarf, who at the siege of Albracca stole Sacripante’s charger from between his legs without his knowing it. He also stole Angelica’s magic ring, by mea ns of which he released Rogero from the castle in which he was imprisoned. Ariosto says that Agramant gave the dwarf a ring which had the power of resisting magic.—Bojardo: Orlando Innamorato (1495); and Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (1516).

“I,” says Sancho, “slept so soundly upon Dapple, that the thief had time enough to clap four stakes under the four corners of my pannel, and to lead away the beast from under my legs without waking me.”—Cervantes: Don Quixote, II. i. 4 (1615).