Crossword-Solution: BYRES 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There the herds they keep Close-pent in byres, nor any grass is seen Upon the plain, nor leaves upon the tree: But with snow-ridges and deep frost afar Heaped seven ells high the earth lies featureless: Still winter? still the north wind's icy breath! Nay, never sun disparts the shadows pale, Or as he rides the steep of heaven, or dips In ocean's fiery bath his plunging car.

The slaty-blue buffaloes, with their long, backward-sweeping horns and savage eyes, rose out their byres, one by one, and followed him, and Mowgli made it very clear to the children with him that he was the master.

They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain, The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain.

And they came unwearied to the high-roofed byres and the drinking-troughs that were before the noble meadow.

Eyvind Skaldaspiller describes it in his poem, as he came outside of his house and found a thick snowdrift at that season:-- "Tis midsummer, yet deep snows rest On Odin's mother's frozen breast: Like Laplanders, our cattle-kind In stall or stable we must bind." ENDNOTES: (1) Byres = gards or farms.