Hec´tor de Ma-rys´, a knight,430,432-434,510,512,523,524,525.Hec´u-ba, wife of Priam, king of Troy, to whom she bore Hector, Paris, and many other children,223,224,226,232.He-gi´ra, flight of Mahomet from Mecca to Medina (622a.d.), era from which Mahometans reckon time, as we do from the birth of Christ,647-648.Heid´run, she-goat, furnishing mead for slain heroes in Valhalla,331.Heim´dall, watchman of the gods,332,347,349.Hel, the lower world of Scandinavia, to which were consigned those who had not died in battle,345.He´la (Death), the daughter of Loki and the mistress of the Scandinavian Hel,332,344,345,349.Hel´en, daughter of Jupiter and Leda; wife of Menelaus; carried off by Paris and cause of the Trojan War,77,153,158,212,223,229,232,233,424.Hel´e-nus, son of Priam and Hecuba, celebrated for his prophetic powers,260,261,379.He-li´a-des, sisters of Phaëton,45.Hel´i-con, Mount, in Greece, residence of Apollo and the Muses, with fountains of poetic inspiration, Aganippe and Hippocrene,43,124.He-lio-op´o-lis, city of the Sun, in Egypt,311.Hel´las, Greece,2.Hel´le, daughter of Thessalian King Athamas, who, escaping from cruel father with her brother Phryxus, on ram with golden fleece, fell into the sea-strait since named for her (SeeGolden Fleece),129.Hel´les-pont, narrow strait between Europe and Asia Minor, named for Helle (whichSee),106,129.Hen´gist, Saxon invader of Britain, 449a.d.,530.He-phæs´tos,6.SeeVulcan.He´ra, called Juno by the Romans, a daughter of Cronos (Saturn) and Rhea, and sister and wife of Jupiter,6.SeeJuno.Her´cu-les, athletic hero, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, achieved twelve vast labors and many famous deeds,128,130,133,143-149,150,151,153,165,177,178,179,181,193,229,279,301,379.Her´cu-les, Pillars of (SeePillars of Hercules),145.Her´cu-les, the twelve labors of,144-147.Her´e-ward the Wake, hero of the Saxons,641-643.Her´mes (Mercury), messenger of the gods, deity of commerce, science, eloquence, trickery, theft, and skill generally,18,49-51,293.Her-mi´o-ne, daughter of Menelaus and Helen,233.Her´mod, the nimble, son of Odin,345.He´ro, a priestess of Venus, beloved of Leander (whichSee),105-106.He-rod´o-tus, Greek historian,307.He´si-od, Greek poet,273.Hes-pe´ri-a, ancient name for Italy,259.Hes-per´i-des (SeeApples of the Hesperides),46,145.Hes´pe-rus, the evening star (also called Day-Star, p.41),53,69,145.Hes´ti-a, called Vesta by the Romans, the goddess of the hearth,10.Hil´de-brand, German magician and champion,353.Hin´du mythology,320-321.Hin´du triad, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva (whichSee),320-323.Hip-po-cre´ne (SeeHelicon),124.Hip-po-da-mi´a, wife of Pirithous, at whose wedding the Centaurs offered violence to the bride, causing a great battle,127.Hip´po-griff, winged horse, with eagle’s head and claws,719,721,722,741.Hip-pol´y-ta, Queen of the Amazons,145,154.Hip-pol´y-tus, son of Thesus,154.Hip-pom´e-nes, who won Atalanta in foot-race, beguiling her with golden apples thrown for her to pick up,66,141-142.His´ti-on, son of Japhet,379.Ho´dur, blind man, who, fooled by Loki, threw a mistletoe-twig at Baldur, killing him,344-345.Ho´el, king of Brittany,400,406,408,409,411,475.Holy Wars of Charlemagne,375.Ho´mer, the blind poet of Greece, about 850b.c.,202,212,216,273,306-307.Hope (SeePandora),14.Ho´ræ.SeeHours.Hor´sa, with Hengist, invader of Britain,530.Ho´rus, Egyptian god of the sun,293.Hou-dain´, Tristram’s dog,454,457.Hours,39,41,208.Hring´ham, Baldur’s ship,347.Hroth´gar, king of Denmark,635.Hu´gi, who beat Thialfi in foot-races,340.Hu´gin, one of Odin’s two ravens,330.Hun´ger,266,333.Hun´ding, husband of Sieglinda,355.Hu´on, son of Duke Sevinus,826ff.Hy-a-cin´thus, a youth beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by him, changed in death to the flower, hyacinth,67-68,228.Hy´a-des, Nysæan nymphs, nurses of infant Bacchus, rewarded by being placed as cluster of stars in the heavens,160.Hy´a-le, a nymph of Diana,34.Hy´dra, nine-headed monster slain by Hercules,144,149,267,269.Hy-ge´i-a, goddess of health, daughter of Æsculapius,174.Hy´las, a youth detained by nymphs of spring where he sought water,133.Hy´men, the god of marriage, imagined as a handsome youth and invoked in bridal songs,20,185.Hy-met´tus, mountain in Attica, near Athens, celebrated for its marble and its honey,63.Hy-per-bo´re-ans, people of the far North,2.Hy-pe´ri-on, a Titan, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Helios, Selene, and Eos,4,5;cattle of,244.Hyr-ca´nia, Prince of, betrothed to Clarimunda,844,845.Hy-ri-e´us, king in Greece,297.II-ap´e-tus, a Titan, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menœtius,4,18.I-a´si-us, father of Atalanta,138.Ib´y-cus, a poet, story of, and the cranes,198-201.I-ca´ri-a, island of the Ægean Sea, one of the Sporades,157.I-ca´ri-us, Spartan prince, father of Penelope,184.Ic´a-rus, son of Dædalus, he flew too near the sun with artificial wings, and, the wax melting, he fell into the sea,156,157.Ice´land,351,405.Ice-los, attendant of Morpheus,72.I-col´um-kill.SeeIona.I´da, Mount, a Trojan hill,43,150,211.I-dæ´us, a Trojan herald,226.I´das, son of Aphareus and Arene, and brother of Lynceus,158.I-du´na, wife of Bragi,332.I-gerne´, wife of Gorlois, and mother, by Uther, of Arthur,397,398.Il´i-ad, epic poem of the Trojan War, by Homer,216,227.Il´i-o´heus, a son of Niobe (whichSee),113.Il´i-um.SeeTroy.Il-lyr´i-a, Adriatic countries north of Greece,31,94.Im´o-gen, daughter of Pandrasus, wife of Trojan Brutus,380.In´a-chus, son of Oceanus and Tethys, and father of Phoroneus and Io; also first king of Argos, and said to have given his name to the river Inachus.29.In´cu-bus, an evil spirit, supposed to lie upon persons in their sleep,389.In´dia,39,161.In´dra, Hindu god of heaven, thunder, lightning, storm and rain,320.Infernal regions,266-273.I´no, wife of Athamas, fleeing from whom with infant son she sprang into the sea and was changed to Leucothea (whichSee),94,164,174.I´o, changed to a heifer by Jupiter,29-31,302.I-ob´a-tes, King of Lycia,124,125.I-o-la´us, servant of Hercules,144.I-ol´cos,133.I´o-le, sister of Dryope,64-65.I-o´na, or Icolmkill, a small northern island near Scotland, where St. Columba founded a missionary monastery (563a.d.),362-366.I-o´ni-a, coast of Asia Minor,69.I-o´ni-an Sea,31.Iph-i-ge-ni´a, daughter of Agamemnon, offered as a sacrifice but carried away by Diana,214,235.I´phis, died for love of Anaxarete,78.Iph´i-tus, friend of Hercules, killed by him,147.Ire´land,362,451ff.I´ris, goddess of the rainbow, messenger of Juno and Zeus,6,71-72,218,225,282.Iron Age,15.I´ron-side, Arthur’s knight,435.Is-a-bel´la, daughter of king of Galicia,449,742-745,753,759.I´sis, wife of Osiris; described as the giver of death,292,293-294.Isles of the Blessed,2,146,273.Is´ma-rus, first stop of Ulysses, returning from Trojan War,236.Isme´nos, a son of Niobe, slain by Apollo,113.I-so´lier, friend of Rinaldo,661,662.I-soude´ the Fair, beloved of Tristram,451-459,461,468,469-472,477.I-soude´ of the White Hands, married to Tristram,475-477.Isth´mi-an Games,155,174.SeeGames.It´a-ly,154,259,262,263,276,285.Ith´a-ca, home of Ulysses and Penelope,184,212,236,253.I-u´lus, son of Æneas,276,277,283,287.I´vo, Saracen king, befriending Rinaldo,663.Ix-i´on, once a sovereign of Thessaly, sentenced in Tartarus to be lashed with serpents to a wheel which a strong wind drove continually around,186,270.JJa-nic´u-lum, Roman fortress on theJaniculus, a hill on the other side of the Tiber,281.Ja´nus, a deity from the earliest times held in high estimation by the Romans,10,281;temple of,277.Ja-pan´,326.Ja´phet (Iapetus),18.Ja´son, leader of the Argonauts, seeking the Golden Fleece,130-133,134,135,136,138-139,151.Ja´va,326.Jo-cas´ta,124,182.Jo´seph of Arimathea, who bore the Holy Graal to Europe,506.Jo´tun-heim, home of the giants in Northern mythology,330,335,348.Jove (Zeus), chief god of Roman and Grecian mythology,5,9,18,53,56,80,98,100,118,119,172,177,183,210,216,220,221,239,245,268.SeeJupiter.Joy´ous Garde, residence of Sir Launcelot of the Lake,524.Jug´ger-naut, Hindu deity,322.Ju´no, the particular guardian spirit of each woman (SeeGenius),11.Ju´no, wife of Jupiter, queen of the gods,6,28-33,37,38,71,72,81,95,101,112,123,143,144,145,149,150,160,177,211,216,218,220,261,277,278,279,282,287,289.Ju´pi-ter,Jovis-pater, Father Jove; Jupiter and Jove used interchangeably,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,13,14,15,16,21,29-32,38,40,44,45,49,50,52,89,91,92,97,107,109,116,117,123,125,127,128,130,143,148,150,153,155,158,160,173,179,180,182,187,192,204,206,207,208,211,217,218,220,221,225,226,232,240,259,263,269,287;oracle of, at Dodona,296;statue of the Olympian,303.Ju´pi-ter Am´mon (SeeAmmon),296.Ju´pi-ter Cap´i-to-li´nus, temple of, preserving the Sibylline books,275.Jus´tice.SeeThemis.KKa-dy-ri´ath, advises King Arthur,564,571.Kai, son of Kyner,570.Kal´ki, tenth avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu,321.Kay, Arthur’s steward and a knight,399,406,407,408,410,411,418,430,431-432,435,440,460,481-482,534,547-548,611,614.Ke-da´li-on, guide of Orion,205-206.Ker´man, desert of,320.Kic´va, daughter of Gwynn Gloy,597-604.Kil´wich, son of Kilydd,608-619.Ki-lydd´, son of Prince Kelyddon, of Wales,608.Kneph, spirit or breath,292.Knights, training and life of,368-371.Kriem´hild, wife of Siegfried,352,353.Krish´na, eighth avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu, Hindu deity of fertility in nature and mankind,321.Ky´ner, father of Kay,534.Ky´non, son of Clydno,534-539.LLab´y-rinth, the enclosed maze of passageways where roamed the Minotaur of Crete, killed by Theseus with aid of Ariadne,152,156.Lach´e-sis, one of the Fates (whichSee),9.Lady of the Fountain, tale told by Kynon,534-553.La-er´tes, father of Ulysses,185.Læs-try-go´ni-ans, savages attacking Ulysses,241.La´ius, King of Thebes,123.La´ma, holy man of Thibet,327.Lam-pe´tia, daughter of Hyperion,244.La-oc´o-on, a priest of Neptune, in Troy, who warned the Trojans against the Wooden Horse (whichSee), but when two serpents came out of the sea and strangled him and his two sons, the people listened to the Greek spy Sinon (whichSee), and brought the fatal Horse into the town,115,230.La-o-da-mi´a, daughter of Acastus and wife of Protesilaus,214.La-od´e-gan, King of Carmalide, helped by Arthur and Merlin,400-403.La-om´e-don, King of Troy,207.Lap´i-thæ, Thessalonians, whose king had invited the Centaurs to his daughter’s wedding but who attacked them for offering violence to the bride,127,166.La´res, household deities,11.Lark´spur, flower from the blood of Ajax,228.La-ti´nus, ruler of Latium, where Æneas landed in Italy,276.Lat´mos, Mount, where Diana fell in love with Endymion,204.La-to´na, mother of Apollo,6,36-38,112,113.Launce´lot, the most famous knight of the Round Table,424-434,436,437-444,446-448,463,465-466,488,491-494,502-504,507-514,521-525.Lau´sus, son of Mezentius, killed by Æneas,278,285.La-vin´i-a, daughter of Latinus and wife of Æneas,276,287.La-vin´i-um, Italian city named for Lavinia,287.Law.SeeThemis.Le-an´der, a youth of Abydos, who, swimming the Hellespont to see Hero, his love, was drowned,105-106.
Hec´tor de Ma-rys´, a knight,430,432-434,510,512,523,524,525.
Hec´u-ba, wife of Priam, king of Troy, to whom she bore Hector, Paris, and many other children,223,224,226,232.
He-gi´ra, flight of Mahomet from Mecca to Medina (622a.d.), era from which Mahometans reckon time, as we do from the birth of Christ,647-648.
Heid´run, she-goat, furnishing mead for slain heroes in Valhalla,331.
Heim´dall, watchman of the gods,332,347,349.
Hel, the lower world of Scandinavia, to which were consigned those who had not died in battle,345.
He´la (Death), the daughter of Loki and the mistress of the Scandinavian Hel,332,344,345,349.
Hel´en, daughter of Jupiter and Leda; wife of Menelaus; carried off by Paris and cause of the Trojan War,77,153,158,212,223,229,232,233,424.
Hel´e-nus, son of Priam and Hecuba, celebrated for his prophetic powers,260,261,379.
He-li´a-des, sisters of Phaëton,45.
Hel´i-con, Mount, in Greece, residence of Apollo and the Muses, with fountains of poetic inspiration, Aganippe and Hippocrene,43,124.
He-lio-op´o-lis, city of the Sun, in Egypt,311.
Hel´las, Greece,2.
Hel´le, daughter of Thessalian King Athamas, who, escaping from cruel father with her brother Phryxus, on ram with golden fleece, fell into the sea-strait since named for her (SeeGolden Fleece),129.
Hel´les-pont, narrow strait between Europe and Asia Minor, named for Helle (whichSee),106,129.
Hen´gist, Saxon invader of Britain, 449a.d.,530.
He-phæs´tos,6.
SeeVulcan.
He´ra, called Juno by the Romans, a daughter of Cronos (Saturn) and Rhea, and sister and wife of Jupiter,6.
SeeJuno.
Her´cu-les, athletic hero, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, achieved twelve vast labors and many famous deeds,128,130,133,143-149,150,151,153,165,177,178,179,181,193,229,279,301,379.
Her´cu-les, Pillars of (SeePillars of Hercules),145.
Her´cu-les, the twelve labors of,144-147.
Her´e-ward the Wake, hero of the Saxons,641-643.
Her´mes (Mercury), messenger of the gods, deity of commerce, science, eloquence, trickery, theft, and skill generally,18,49-51,293.
Her-mi´o-ne, daughter of Menelaus and Helen,233.
Her´mod, the nimble, son of Odin,345.
He´ro, a priestess of Venus, beloved of Leander (whichSee),105-106.
He-rod´o-tus, Greek historian,307.
He´si-od, Greek poet,273.
Hes-pe´ri-a, ancient name for Italy,259.
Hes-per´i-des (SeeApples of the Hesperides),46,145.
Hes´pe-rus, the evening star (also called Day-Star, p.41),53,69,145.
Hes´ti-a, called Vesta by the Romans, the goddess of the hearth,10.
Hil´de-brand, German magician and champion,353.
Hin´du mythology,320-321.
Hin´du triad, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva (whichSee),320-323.
Hip-po-cre´ne (SeeHelicon),124.
Hip-po-da-mi´a, wife of Pirithous, at whose wedding the Centaurs offered violence to the bride, causing a great battle,127.
Hip´po-griff, winged horse, with eagle’s head and claws,719,721,722,741.
Hip-pol´y-ta, Queen of the Amazons,145,154.
Hip-pol´y-tus, son of Thesus,154.
Hip-pom´e-nes, who won Atalanta in foot-race, beguiling her with golden apples thrown for her to pick up,66,141-142.
His´ti-on, son of Japhet,379.
Ho´dur, blind man, who, fooled by Loki, threw a mistletoe-twig at Baldur, killing him,344-345.
Ho´el, king of Brittany,400,406,408,409,411,475.
Holy Wars of Charlemagne,375.
Ho´mer, the blind poet of Greece, about 850b.c.,202,212,216,273,306-307.
Hope (SeePandora),14.
Ho´ræ.SeeHours.
Hor´sa, with Hengist, invader of Britain,530.
Ho´rus, Egyptian god of the sun,293.
Hou-dain´, Tristram’s dog,454,457.
Hours,39,41,208.
Hring´ham, Baldur’s ship,347.
Hroth´gar, king of Denmark,635.
Hu´gi, who beat Thialfi in foot-races,340.
Hu´gin, one of Odin’s two ravens,330.
Hun´ger,266,333.
Hun´ding, husband of Sieglinda,355.
Hu´on, son of Duke Sevinus,826ff.
Hy-a-cin´thus, a youth beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by him, changed in death to the flower, hyacinth,67-68,228.
Hy´a-des, Nysæan nymphs, nurses of infant Bacchus, rewarded by being placed as cluster of stars in the heavens,160.
Hy´a-le, a nymph of Diana,34.
Hy´dra, nine-headed monster slain by Hercules,144,149,267,269.
Hy-ge´i-a, goddess of health, daughter of Æsculapius,174.
Hy´las, a youth detained by nymphs of spring where he sought water,133.
Hy´men, the god of marriage, imagined as a handsome youth and invoked in bridal songs,20,185.
Hy-met´tus, mountain in Attica, near Athens, celebrated for its marble and its honey,63.
Hy-per-bo´re-ans, people of the far North,2.
Hy-pe´ri-on, a Titan, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Helios, Selene, and Eos,4,5;
cattle of,244.
Hyr-ca´nia, Prince of, betrothed to Clarimunda,844,845.
Hy-ri-e´us, king in Greece,297.
I
I-ap´e-tus, a Titan, son of Uranus and Ge, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menœtius,4,18.
I-a´si-us, father of Atalanta,138.
Ib´y-cus, a poet, story of, and the cranes,198-201.
I-ca´ri-a, island of the Ægean Sea, one of the Sporades,157.
I-ca´ri-us, Spartan prince, father of Penelope,184.
Ic´a-rus, son of Dædalus, he flew too near the sun with artificial wings, and, the wax melting, he fell into the sea,156,157.
Ice´land,351,405.
Ice-los, attendant of Morpheus,72.
I-col´um-kill.SeeIona.
I´da, Mount, a Trojan hill,43,150,211.
I-dæ´us, a Trojan herald,226.
I´das, son of Aphareus and Arene, and brother of Lynceus,158.
I-du´na, wife of Bragi,332.
I-gerne´, wife of Gorlois, and mother, by Uther, of Arthur,397,398.
Il´i-ad, epic poem of the Trojan War, by Homer,216,227.
Il´i-o´heus, a son of Niobe (whichSee),113.
Il´i-um.SeeTroy.
Il-lyr´i-a, Adriatic countries north of Greece,31,94.
Im´o-gen, daughter of Pandrasus, wife of Trojan Brutus,380.
In´a-chus, son of Oceanus and Tethys, and father of Phoroneus and Io; also first king of Argos, and said to have given his name to the river Inachus.29.
In´cu-bus, an evil spirit, supposed to lie upon persons in their sleep,389.
In´dia,39,161.
In´dra, Hindu god of heaven, thunder, lightning, storm and rain,320.
Infernal regions,266-273.
I´no, wife of Athamas, fleeing from whom with infant son she sprang into the sea and was changed to Leucothea (whichSee),94,164,174.
I´o, changed to a heifer by Jupiter,29-31,302.
I-ob´a-tes, King of Lycia,124,125.
I-o-la´us, servant of Hercules,144.
I-ol´cos,133.
I´o-le, sister of Dryope,64-65.
I-o´na, or Icolmkill, a small northern island near Scotland, where St. Columba founded a missionary monastery (563a.d.),362-366.
I-o´ni-a, coast of Asia Minor,69.
I-o´ni-an Sea,31.
Iph-i-ge-ni´a, daughter of Agamemnon, offered as a sacrifice but carried away by Diana,214,235.
I´phis, died for love of Anaxarete,78.
Iph´i-tus, friend of Hercules, killed by him,147.
Ire´land,362,451ff.
I´ris, goddess of the rainbow, messenger of Juno and Zeus,6,71-72,218,225,282.
Iron Age,15.
I´ron-side, Arthur’s knight,435.
Is-a-bel´la, daughter of king of Galicia,449,742-745,753,759.
I´sis, wife of Osiris; described as the giver of death,292,293-294.
Isles of the Blessed,2,146,273.
Is´ma-rus, first stop of Ulysses, returning from Trojan War,236.
Isme´nos, a son of Niobe, slain by Apollo,113.
I-so´lier, friend of Rinaldo,661,662.
I-soude´ the Fair, beloved of Tristram,451-459,461,468,469-472,477.
I-soude´ of the White Hands, married to Tristram,475-477.
Isth´mi-an Games,155,174.
SeeGames.
It´a-ly,154,259,262,263,276,285.
Ith´a-ca, home of Ulysses and Penelope,184,212,236,253.
I-u´lus, son of Æneas,276,277,283,287.
I´vo, Saracen king, befriending Rinaldo,663.
Ix-i´on, once a sovereign of Thessaly, sentenced in Tartarus to be lashed with serpents to a wheel which a strong wind drove continually around,186,270.
J
Ja-nic´u-lum, Roman fortress on theJaniculus, a hill on the other side of the Tiber,281.
Ja´nus, a deity from the earliest times held in high estimation by the Romans,10,281;
temple of,277.
Ja-pan´,326.
Ja´phet (Iapetus),18.
Ja´son, leader of the Argonauts, seeking the Golden Fleece,130-133,134,135,136,138-139,151.
Ja´va,326.
Jo-cas´ta,124,182.
Jo´seph of Arimathea, who bore the Holy Graal to Europe,506.
Jo´tun-heim, home of the giants in Northern mythology,330,335,348.
Jove (Zeus), chief god of Roman and Grecian mythology,5,9,18,53,56,80,98,100,118,119,172,177,183,210,216,220,221,239,245,268.
SeeJupiter.
Joy´ous Garde, residence of Sir Launcelot of the Lake,524.
Jug´ger-naut, Hindu deity,322.
Ju´no, the particular guardian spirit of each woman (SeeGenius),11.
Ju´no, wife of Jupiter, queen of the gods,6,28-33,37,38,71,72,81,95,101,112,123,143,144,145,149,150,160,177,211,216,218,220,261,277,278,279,282,287,289.
Ju´pi-ter,Jovis-pater, Father Jove; Jupiter and Jove used interchangeably,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,13,14,15,16,21,29-32,38,40,44,45,49,50,52,89,91,92,97,107,109,116,117,123,125,127,128,130,143,148,150,153,155,158,160,173,179,180,182,187,192,204,206,207,208,211,217,218,220,221,225,226,232,240,259,263,269,287;
oracle of, at Dodona,296;
statue of the Olympian,303.
Ju´pi-ter Am´mon (SeeAmmon),296.
Ju´pi-ter Cap´i-to-li´nus, temple of, preserving the Sibylline books,275.
Jus´tice.SeeThemis.
K
Ka-dy-ri´ath, advises King Arthur,564,571.
Kai, son of Kyner,570.
Kal´ki, tenth avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu,321.
Kay, Arthur’s steward and a knight,399,406,407,408,410,411,418,430,431-432,435,440,460,481-482,534,547-548,611,614.
Ke-da´li-on, guide of Orion,205-206.
Ker´man, desert of,320.
Kic´va, daughter of Gwynn Gloy,597-604.
Kil´wich, son of Kilydd,608-619.
Ki-lydd´, son of Prince Kelyddon, of Wales,608.
Kneph, spirit or breath,292.
Knights, training and life of,368-371.
Kriem´hild, wife of Siegfried,352,353.
Krish´na, eighth avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu, Hindu deity of fertility in nature and mankind,321.
Ky´ner, father of Kay,534.
Ky´non, son of Clydno,534-539.
L
Lab´y-rinth, the enclosed maze of passageways where roamed the Minotaur of Crete, killed by Theseus with aid of Ariadne,152,156.
Lach´e-sis, one of the Fates (whichSee),9.
Lady of the Fountain, tale told by Kynon,534-553.
La-er´tes, father of Ulysses,185.
Læs-try-go´ni-ans, savages attacking Ulysses,241.
La´ius, King of Thebes,123.
La´ma, holy man of Thibet,327.
Lam-pe´tia, daughter of Hyperion,244.
La-oc´o-on, a priest of Neptune, in Troy, who warned the Trojans against the Wooden Horse (whichSee), but when two serpents came out of the sea and strangled him and his two sons, the people listened to the Greek spy Sinon (whichSee), and brought the fatal Horse into the town,115,230.
La-o-da-mi´a, daughter of Acastus and wife of Protesilaus,214.
La-od´e-gan, King of Carmalide, helped by Arthur and Merlin,400-403.
La-om´e-don, King of Troy,207.
Lap´i-thæ, Thessalonians, whose king had invited the Centaurs to his daughter’s wedding but who attacked them for offering violence to the bride,127,166.
La´res, household deities,11.
Lark´spur, flower from the blood of Ajax,228.
La-ti´nus, ruler of Latium, where Æneas landed in Italy,276.
Lat´mos, Mount, where Diana fell in love with Endymion,204.
La-to´na, mother of Apollo,6,36-38,112,113.
Launce´lot, the most famous knight of the Round Table,424-434,436,437-444,446-448,463,465-466,488,491-494,502-504,507-514,521-525.
Lau´sus, son of Mezentius, killed by Æneas,278,285.
La-vin´i-a, daughter of Latinus and wife of Æneas,276,287.
La-vin´i-um, Italian city named for Lavinia,287.
Law.SeeThemis.
Le-an´der, a youth of Abydos, who, swimming the Hellespont to see Hero, his love, was drowned,105-106.