Le-ba-de´a, site of the oracle of Trophonius,298.Le-byn´thos, Ægean island,157.Le´da, Queen of Sparta, wooed by Jupiter in the form of a swan,109,158.Leir, mythical King of Britain, original of Shakespeare’sLear,383-384.Le´laps, dog of Cephalus,26,35.Lem´nos, large island in the Ægean Sea, sacred to Vulcan,6,130,205,229.Lem´u-res, the spectres or spirits of the dead,11.Le´o, Roman emperor,409;Greek prince,791,793,797,801.Le´the, river of Hades, drinking whose water caused forgetfulness,72,271.Leu-ca´dia, a promontory, whence Sappho, disappointed in love, was said to have thrown herself into the sea,203.Leu-co´the-a, a sea-goddess, invoked by sailors for protection (SeeIno),174.Lew´is, son of Charlemagne,825.Li´ber, ancient god of fruitfulness,10,11.Li-be´thra, burial-place of Orpheus,187.Lib´y-a, Greek name for continent of Africa in general,145.Lib´y-an Desert, in Africa,44.Lib´y-an Oasis,296.Li´chas, who brought the shirt of Nessus to Hercules,148.Li-mours´, Earl of,580.Li´nus, musical instructor of Hercules,193.Lion, constellation,41.Li´o-nel, knight of the Round Table,424,425,430,442,443,444,497-501,510,512.Little Bear, constellation,32-33,42.Llyr, King of Britain,589.Lo-crine´, son of Brutus in Albion, king of Central England,381,382.Lo-e´gri-a, kingdom of (England),450,460,468,507.Lo-ge-stil´la, a wise lady, who entertained Rogero and his friends,731,739.Lo´gi, who vanquished Loki in an eating-contest,339.Lo´ki, the Satan of Norse mythology, son of the giant Farbanti,332,334,335,337,339,344-345,346,347,349,352,354,355.Lo´mond, Lake,405.Lon´don,381,387,402,403-404.Lot, King, a rebel chief, subdued by King Arthur, then a loyal knight,403,405,407,414.Lo´tis, a nymph, changed to a lotus plant and in that form plucked by Dryope (whichSee),64.Lo´tus-Eaters, soothed to indolence; companions of Ulysses landing among them lost all memory of home and had to be dragged away before they would continue their voyage,237.Love (Eros) issued from egg of Night, and with arrows and torch produced life and joy,4.Lu´can, one of Arthur’s knights,512,517-518.Lu´cius Ti-be´ri-us, Roman procurator in Britain demanding tribute from Arthur,409.Lud, British king, whose capital was called Lud’s Town (London),387.Lud´gate, city gate where Lud was buried,387.Lu´ned, maiden who guided Owain to the Lady of the Fountain,541-546,552.Lyc´a-has, a turbulent sailor,162.Ly-ca´on, son of Priam,222.Lyc´i-a, a district in Southern Asia Minor,36,124,220.Lyc-o-me´des, king of the Dolopians, who treacherously slew Theseus,154,212.Ly´cus, usurping King of Thebes,192.Lyn´ceus, one of the sons of Ægyptus,158.MMab-i-no´ge-on, plural ofMabinogi; fairy tales and romances of the Welsh,527-633.Ma´bon, son of Modron,619,624.Ma-cha´on, son of Æsculapius,218,219,229.Ma´dan, son of Guendolen,382.Ma´doc, a forester of King Arthur,554.Ma´dor, Scottish knight,445-448.Mael´gan, king who imprisoned Elphin,628.Mæ-o´ni-a, ancient Lydia,162.Ma´gi, Persian priests,319.Ma-ha-de´va, same as Siva (whichSee),322.Ma-hom´et, great prophet of Arabia, born in Mecca, 571a.d., proclaimed worship of God instead of idols, spread his religion through disciples and then by force till it prevailed, with Arabian dominion, over vast regions in Asia, Africa, and Spain in Europe,647.Ma´ia, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, eldest and most beautiful of the Pleiades.7.Mail armour,372.Mal-a-gi´gi the Enchanter, one of Charlemagne’s knights,656,666,669-670,673,769,804,816-819.Ma-le´a-gans, false knight,436-441.Mal-va´si-us, King of Iceland,407.Mam-bri´no, with invisible helmet,780.Man, creation of,12.Man-a-wyd´dan, brother of King Vran, of London,589,596,597-605.Man-dri-car´do, son of Agrican,698-701,753-755,760,765.Man´tu-a, in Italy, birthplace of Virgil,308.Ma´nu, ancestor of mankind,321.Mar´a-thon, where Theseus and Pirithous met,153.Mark, King of Cornwall, husband of Isoude the Fair,449,450,452,468,471.Mar´mo-ra, Sea of,106.Ma´ro.SeeVirgil.Mar-phi´sa, sister of Rogero,765-768.Mars,6,94,107,131,216,224.Mar-sil´i-us, Spanish king, treacherous foe of Charlemagne,801-813.Mar´sy-as, inventor of the flute, who challenged Apollo to musical competition, and, defeated, was flayed alive,193.Mats´ya, the Fish, first avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu,321.Me-an´der, Grecian river,44,156.Me-de´a, princess and sorceress who aided Jason,117,131,132,134-137,151,152.Med-i-ter-ra´ne-an Sea,1,233.Me-do´ro, a young Moor, who wins Angelica,745-752.Me-du´sa, one of the Gorgons (whichSee),116-117,124.Me-gæ´ra, one of the Furies (whichSee),9.Meg´a-ra,98.Me-lam´pus, a Spartan dog,35;the first mortal endowed with prophetic powers,193-194.Me-lan´thus, steersman for Bacchus,162.Me-le-a´ger, one of the Argonauts (SeeAlthæa),138-141.Mel-i-a´dus, King of Lionesse, near Cornwall,449.Mel´i-cer´tes, infant son of Ino, changed to Palæmon (SeeIno,Leucothea, andPalæmon),174.Me-lis´sa, priestess at Merlin’s tomb,716,727-731,738,779.Me-lis´se-us, a Cretan king,179.Mel-pom´e-ne, one of the Muses (whichSee),8.Mem´non, the beautiful son of Tithonus and Eos (Aurora), and king of the Ethiopians, slain in Trojan War,120,207,208,227.Mem´phis, Egyptian city,295,299.Men-e-la´us, son of King of Sparta, husband of Helen,212,213,219,221,232,233,289.Men-œ´ceus, son of Creon, voluntary victim in war to gain success for his father,183.Men´tor, son of Alcimus and a faithful friend of Ulysses,246.Mer´cu-ry (SeeHermes),7,13,29-31,49,56,89,116,123,129,147,192,214,226,242,245,251,263,301.Mer´lin, enchanter,389-393,397,399,400,401-403,412,413,424,467,475,715.Mer´o-pe, daughter of King of Chios, beloved by Orion,205.Mes´mer-ism, likened to curative oracle of Æsculapius at Epidaurus,298.Met´a-bus, father of Camilla,278.Met´a-mor´pho-ses, Ovid’s poetical legends of mythical transformations, a large source of our knowledge of classic mythology,309.Met-a-ni´ra, a mother, kind to Ceres seeking Proserpine,54.Me-temp´sy-cho´sis, transmigration of souls—rebirth of dying men and women in forms of animals or human beings,272.Me´tis, Prudence, a spouse of Jupiter,5.Me-zen´ti-us, a brave but cruel soldier, opposing Æneas in Italy,278,281,285,286.Mi´das,46-48.Mid´gard, the middle world of the Norsemen,329,330,348.Mid´gard serpent, a sea-monster, child of Loki,332,344,349.Milky Way, starred path across the sky, believed to be road to palace of the gods,15.Mi´lo, a great athlete,292.Mi´lon, father of Orlando,656.Mil´ton, John, great English poet, whose History of England is here largely used,378.Mi´me, one of the chief dwarfs of ancient German mythology,354,356.Mi-ner´va (Athene), daughter of Jupiter, patroness of health, learning, and wisdom,3,4,7,13,50,53,107-111,116,117,123,124,125,147,153,154,157,183,193,211,216,229,230,235,246,247,248,249,250,251,254;statue of,304.Mi´nos, King of Crete,95,98-100,152,154,156,165,268.Min´o-taur, monster killed by Theseus,152.Mis´tle-toe, fatal to Baldur,344,360.Mne-mos´y-ne, one of the Muses (whichSee),4,8.Modesty, statue to,184.Mo´dred, nephew of King Arthur,395,409,508,515-518.Mo´ly, plant, powerful against sorcery,242.Mo´mus, a deity whose delight was to jeer bitterly at gods and men,9.Mon´ad, the “unit” of Pythagoras,289.Monsters, unnatural beings, evilly disposed to men,122-129.Mont-al´ban, Rinaldo’s castle,664.Month, the, attendant upon the Sun,39.Moon,3,5,41,43;goddess of,seeDiana.Mo-raunt´, knight, an Irish champion,450,468.Mor-ga´na, enchantress, the Lady of the Lake in “Orlando Furioso,” same as Morgane Le Fay in tales of Arthur,414,689,690-692,869.Mor-gane´ le Fay, Queen of Norway, King Arthur’s sister, an enchantress,426-427,521.Mor´gan Tud, Arthur’s chief physician,566.Mor´pheus, son of Sleep and god of dreams,72,73.Morte d’Arthur, romance, by Sir Thomas Mallory,378.Mul´ci-ber, Latin name of Vulcan,10.Mull, Island of,362.Mu´nin, one of Odin’s two ravens,130.Mu-sæ´us, sacred poet, son of Orpheus,194.Mu´ses, The, nine goddesses presiding over poetry, etc.—Calliope, epic poetry; Clio, history; Erato, love poetry; Euterpe, lyric poetry; Melpomene, tragedy; Polyhymnia, oratory and sacred song; Terpsichore, choral song and dance; Thalia, comedy and idyls; Urania, astronomy,3,8,43,124,126,187,193.Mus´pel-heim, the fire-world of the Norsemen,349.My-ce´næ, ancient Grecian city, of which Agamemnon was king,213,235.Myrd´din (Merlin),531.Myr´mi-dons, bold soldiers of Achilles,95-98,219.Mys´i-a, Greek district on northwest coast of Asia Minor,130,133.Mythology, origin of, collected myths, describing gods of early peoples,300-303.NNa´iads, water-nymphs,36,45,167,174,178,209.Na´mo, Duke of Bavaria, one of Charlemagne’s knights,656,827ff.Nan´na, wife of Baldur,347.Nan´ters, British king,403.Nantes, site of Caradoc’s castle,419.Na´pe, a dog of Diana,35.Nar-cis´sus, who died of unsatisfied love for his own image in the water,101-103.Nau-sic´a-a, daughter of King Alcinoüs, who befriended Ulysses,248,249.Nau-sith´o-us, king of Phæacians,247,248.Nax´os, Island of,152,163,165.Ne´gus, King of Abyssinia,328.Ne-me´a, forest devastated by a lion killed by Hercules,144,155.Ne-me´an Games, held in honor of Jupiter and Hercules,155.Ne-me´an Lion, killed by Hercules,144.Nem´e-sis, goddess of vengeance,9.Nen´ni-us, British combatant of Cæsar,387.Ne-op-tol´e-mus, son of Achilles,233.Ne-pen´the, ancient drug to cause forgetfulness of pain or distress,233.Neph´e-le, mother of Phryxus and Helle,34,129.Neph´thys, Egyptian goddess,294.Nep´tune, identical with Poseidon, god of the sea,4,5,16,44,107,109,132,144,154,171,172,173,174,190,199,205,216,217,218,223,230,244,252,261,264,297,379.Ne´re-ids, sea-nymphs, daughters of Nereus and Doris,44,167,173,196.Ne´re-us, a sea-god,44,173,174,209.Nes´sus, a centaur killed by Hercules, whose jealous wife sent him a robe or shirt steeped in the blood of Nessus, which poisoned him,147.Nes´tor, king of Pylos, renowned for his wisdom, justice, and knowledge of war,130,138,139,208,213,217,218,219,353.Ni´be-lun´gen Hoard, treasure seized by Siegfried from the Nibelungs, buried in the Rhine by Hagan after killing Siegfried, and lost when Hagan was killed by Kriemhild; theme of Wagner’s four music-dramas, “The Ring of the Nibelungen,”353.Ni´be-lun´gen Lied, German epic, giving the same nature-myth as the Norse Volsunga Saga, concerning the Hoard,352,354.Ni´be-lun´gen Ring, Wagner’s music-dramas,354-357.Ni´be-lungs, the, a race of Northern dwarfs,353,354.Nid´hogge, a serpent in the lower world that lives on the dead,330.Niffle´heim, mist world of the Norsemen; the Hades of absent spirits,330,333,335,348.Night,4,42,208.Nile, Egyptian river,31,44.Nim´rod, tower of,301.Ni´nus, Tomb of,24.Ni´o-be, daughter of Tantalus, proud Queen of Thebes, whose seven sons and seven daughters were killed by Apollo and Diana, at which Amphion, her husband, killed himself, and Niobe wept until she was turned to stone,111-115.Ni´sus, King of Megara,98-101,282,283,284.No´ah, as legendary ancestor of French, Roman, German, and British peoples,379.No´man, name assumed by Ulysses,239.Norns, the three Scandinavian Fates, Urdur (the past), Verdandi (the present), and Skuld (the future),330.Northern Mythology,328-357.No´thung, magic sword,355,356.No´tus, southwest wind,176.Nox, daughter of Chaos and sister of Erebus; personification of night,4.Nu´ma, second king of Rome,11,175.Nymphs, beautiful maidens, lesser divinities of nature: Dryads and Hamadryads, tree-nymphs; Naiads, spring-, brook-, and river-nymphs; Nereids, sea-nymphs; Oreads, mountain- or hill-nymphs,44,79,208.Ny-sæ´an nymphs,160.OOcean,2,44,273.O-ce´a-nus, a Titan, ruling watery elements,4,32,59,172,174.O-cyr´o-e, a prophetess, daughter of Chiron,127.Od´e-ric,743.O´din, chief of the Norse gods,329,330,331,344,347,349,351.
Le-ba-de´a, site of the oracle of Trophonius,298.
Le-byn´thos, Ægean island,157.
Le´da, Queen of Sparta, wooed by Jupiter in the form of a swan,109,158.
Leir, mythical King of Britain, original of Shakespeare’sLear,383-384.
Le´laps, dog of Cephalus,26,35.
Lem´nos, large island in the Ægean Sea, sacred to Vulcan,6,130,205,229.
Lem´u-res, the spectres or spirits of the dead,11.
Le´o, Roman emperor,409;
Greek prince,791,793,797,801.
Le´the, river of Hades, drinking whose water caused forgetfulness,72,271.
Leu-ca´dia, a promontory, whence Sappho, disappointed in love, was said to have thrown herself into the sea,203.
Leu-co´the-a, a sea-goddess, invoked by sailors for protection (SeeIno),174.
Lew´is, son of Charlemagne,825.
Li´ber, ancient god of fruitfulness,10,11.
Li-be´thra, burial-place of Orpheus,187.
Lib´y-a, Greek name for continent of Africa in general,145.
Lib´y-an Desert, in Africa,44.
Lib´y-an Oasis,296.
Li´chas, who brought the shirt of Nessus to Hercules,148.
Li-mours´, Earl of,580.
Li´nus, musical instructor of Hercules,193.
Lion, constellation,41.
Li´o-nel, knight of the Round Table,424,425,430,442,443,444,497-501,510,512.
Little Bear, constellation,32-33,42.
Llyr, King of Britain,589.
Lo-crine´, son of Brutus in Albion, king of Central England,381,382.
Lo-e´gri-a, kingdom of (England),450,460,468,507.
Lo-ge-stil´la, a wise lady, who entertained Rogero and his friends,731,739.
Lo´gi, who vanquished Loki in an eating-contest,339.
Lo´ki, the Satan of Norse mythology, son of the giant Farbanti,332,334,335,337,339,344-345,346,347,349,352,354,355.
Lo´mond, Lake,405.
Lon´don,381,387,402,403-404.
Lot, King, a rebel chief, subdued by King Arthur, then a loyal knight,403,405,407,414.
Lo´tis, a nymph, changed to a lotus plant and in that form plucked by Dryope (whichSee),64.
Lo´tus-Eaters, soothed to indolence; companions of Ulysses landing among them lost all memory of home and had to be dragged away before they would continue their voyage,237.
Love (Eros) issued from egg of Night, and with arrows and torch produced life and joy,4.
Lu´can, one of Arthur’s knights,512,517-518.
Lu´cius Ti-be´ri-us, Roman procurator in Britain demanding tribute from Arthur,409.
Lud, British king, whose capital was called Lud’s Town (London),387.
Lud´gate, city gate where Lud was buried,387.
Lu´ned, maiden who guided Owain to the Lady of the Fountain,541-546,552.
Lyc´a-has, a turbulent sailor,162.
Ly-ca´on, son of Priam,222.
Lyc´i-a, a district in Southern Asia Minor,36,124,220.
Lyc-o-me´des, king of the Dolopians, who treacherously slew Theseus,154,212.
Ly´cus, usurping King of Thebes,192.
Lyn´ceus, one of the sons of Ægyptus,158.
M
Mab-i-no´ge-on, plural ofMabinogi; fairy tales and romances of the Welsh,527-633.
Ma´bon, son of Modron,619,624.
Ma-cha´on, son of Æsculapius,218,219,229.
Ma´dan, son of Guendolen,382.
Ma´doc, a forester of King Arthur,554.
Ma´dor, Scottish knight,445-448.
Mael´gan, king who imprisoned Elphin,628.
Mæ-o´ni-a, ancient Lydia,162.
Ma´gi, Persian priests,319.
Ma-ha-de´va, same as Siva (whichSee),322.
Ma-hom´et, great prophet of Arabia, born in Mecca, 571a.d., proclaimed worship of God instead of idols, spread his religion through disciples and then by force till it prevailed, with Arabian dominion, over vast regions in Asia, Africa, and Spain in Europe,647.
Ma´ia, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, eldest and most beautiful of the Pleiades.7.
Mail armour,372.
Mal-a-gi´gi the Enchanter, one of Charlemagne’s knights,656,666,669-670,673,769,804,816-819.
Ma-le´a-gans, false knight,436-441.
Mal-va´si-us, King of Iceland,407.
Mam-bri´no, with invisible helmet,780.
Man, creation of,12.
Man-a-wyd´dan, brother of King Vran, of London,589,596,597-605.
Man-dri-car´do, son of Agrican,698-701,753-755,760,765.
Man´tu-a, in Italy, birthplace of Virgil,308.
Ma´nu, ancestor of mankind,321.
Mar´a-thon, where Theseus and Pirithous met,153.
Mark, King of Cornwall, husband of Isoude the Fair,449,450,452,468,471.
Mar´mo-ra, Sea of,106.
Ma´ro.SeeVirgil.
Mar-phi´sa, sister of Rogero,765-768.
Mars,6,94,107,131,216,224.
Mar-sil´i-us, Spanish king, treacherous foe of Charlemagne,801-813.
Mar´sy-as, inventor of the flute, who challenged Apollo to musical competition, and, defeated, was flayed alive,193.
Mats´ya, the Fish, first avatar (whichSee) of Vishnu,321.
Me-an´der, Grecian river,44,156.
Me-de´a, princess and sorceress who aided Jason,117,131,132,134-137,151,152.
Med-i-ter-ra´ne-an Sea,1,233.
Me-do´ro, a young Moor, who wins Angelica,745-752.
Me-du´sa, one of the Gorgons (whichSee),116-117,124.
Me-gæ´ra, one of the Furies (whichSee),9.
Meg´a-ra,98.
Me-lam´pus, a Spartan dog,35;
the first mortal endowed with prophetic powers,193-194.
Me-lan´thus, steersman for Bacchus,162.
Me-le-a´ger, one of the Argonauts (SeeAlthæa),138-141.
Mel-i-a´dus, King of Lionesse, near Cornwall,449.
Mel´i-cer´tes, infant son of Ino, changed to Palæmon (SeeIno,Leucothea, andPalæmon),174.
Me-lis´sa, priestess at Merlin’s tomb,716,727-731,738,779.
Me-lis´se-us, a Cretan king,179.
Mel-pom´e-ne, one of the Muses (whichSee),8.
Mem´non, the beautiful son of Tithonus and Eos (Aurora), and king of the Ethiopians, slain in Trojan War,120,207,208,227.
Mem´phis, Egyptian city,295,299.
Men-e-la´us, son of King of Sparta, husband of Helen,212,213,219,221,232,233,289.
Men-ϫceus, son of Creon, voluntary victim in war to gain success for his father,183.
Men´tor, son of Alcimus and a faithful friend of Ulysses,246.
Mer´cu-ry (SeeHermes),7,13,29-31,49,56,89,116,123,129,147,192,214,226,242,245,251,263,301.
Mer´lin, enchanter,389-393,397,399,400,401-403,412,413,424,467,475,715.
Mer´o-pe, daughter of King of Chios, beloved by Orion,205.
Mes´mer-ism, likened to curative oracle of Æsculapius at Epidaurus,298.
Met´a-bus, father of Camilla,278.
Met´a-mor´pho-ses, Ovid’s poetical legends of mythical transformations, a large source of our knowledge of classic mythology,309.
Met-a-ni´ra, a mother, kind to Ceres seeking Proserpine,54.
Me-temp´sy-cho´sis, transmigration of souls—rebirth of dying men and women in forms of animals or human beings,272.
Me´tis, Prudence, a spouse of Jupiter,5.
Me-zen´ti-us, a brave but cruel soldier, opposing Æneas in Italy,278,281,285,286.
Mi´das,46-48.
Mid´gard, the middle world of the Norsemen,329,330,348.
Mid´gard serpent, a sea-monster, child of Loki,332,344,349.
Milky Way, starred path across the sky, believed to be road to palace of the gods,15.
Mi´lo, a great athlete,292.
Mi´lon, father of Orlando,656.
Mil´ton, John, great English poet, whose History of England is here largely used,378.
Mi´me, one of the chief dwarfs of ancient German mythology,354,356.
Mi-ner´va (Athene), daughter of Jupiter, patroness of health, learning, and wisdom,3,4,7,13,50,53,107-111,116,117,123,124,125,147,153,154,157,183,193,211,216,229,230,235,246,247,248,249,250,251,254;
statue of,304.
Mi´nos, King of Crete,95,98-100,152,154,156,165,268.
Min´o-taur, monster killed by Theseus,152.
Mis´tle-toe, fatal to Baldur,344,360.
Mne-mos´y-ne, one of the Muses (whichSee),4,8.
Modesty, statue to,184.
Mo´dred, nephew of King Arthur,395,409,508,515-518.
Mo´ly, plant, powerful against sorcery,242.
Mo´mus, a deity whose delight was to jeer bitterly at gods and men,9.
Mon´ad, the “unit” of Pythagoras,289.
Monsters, unnatural beings, evilly disposed to men,122-129.
Mont-al´ban, Rinaldo’s castle,664.
Month, the, attendant upon the Sun,39.
Moon,3,5,41,43;
goddess of,seeDiana.
Mo-raunt´, knight, an Irish champion,450,468.
Mor-ga´na, enchantress, the Lady of the Lake in “Orlando Furioso,” same as Morgane Le Fay in tales of Arthur,414,689,690-692,869.
Mor-gane´ le Fay, Queen of Norway, King Arthur’s sister, an enchantress,426-427,521.
Mor´gan Tud, Arthur’s chief physician,566.
Mor´pheus, son of Sleep and god of dreams,72,73.
Morte d’Arthur, romance, by Sir Thomas Mallory,378.
Mul´ci-ber, Latin name of Vulcan,10.
Mull, Island of,362.
Mu´nin, one of Odin’s two ravens,130.
Mu-sæ´us, sacred poet, son of Orpheus,194.
Mu´ses, The, nine goddesses presiding over poetry, etc.—Calliope, epic poetry; Clio, history; Erato, love poetry; Euterpe, lyric poetry; Melpomene, tragedy; Polyhymnia, oratory and sacred song; Terpsichore, choral song and dance; Thalia, comedy and idyls; Urania, astronomy,3,8,43,124,126,187,193.
Mus´pel-heim, the fire-world of the Norsemen,349.
My-ce´næ, ancient Grecian city, of which Agamemnon was king,213,235.
Myrd´din (Merlin),531.
Myr´mi-dons, bold soldiers of Achilles,95-98,219.
Mys´i-a, Greek district on northwest coast of Asia Minor,130,133.
Mythology, origin of, collected myths, describing gods of early peoples,300-303.
N
Na´iads, water-nymphs,36,45,167,174,178,209.
Na´mo, Duke of Bavaria, one of Charlemagne’s knights,656,827ff.
Nan´na, wife of Baldur,347.
Nan´ters, British king,403.
Nantes, site of Caradoc’s castle,419.
Na´pe, a dog of Diana,35.
Nar-cis´sus, who died of unsatisfied love for his own image in the water,101-103.
Nau-sic´a-a, daughter of King Alcinoüs, who befriended Ulysses,248,249.
Nau-sith´o-us, king of Phæacians,247,248.
Nax´os, Island of,152,163,165.
Ne´gus, King of Abyssinia,328.
Ne-me´a, forest devastated by a lion killed by Hercules,144,155.
Ne-me´an Games, held in honor of Jupiter and Hercules,155.
Ne-me´an Lion, killed by Hercules,144.
Nem´e-sis, goddess of vengeance,9.
Nen´ni-us, British combatant of Cæsar,387.
Ne-op-tol´e-mus, son of Achilles,233.
Ne-pen´the, ancient drug to cause forgetfulness of pain or distress,233.
Neph´e-le, mother of Phryxus and Helle,34,129.
Neph´thys, Egyptian goddess,294.
Nep´tune, identical with Poseidon, god of the sea,4,5,16,44,107,109,132,144,154,171,172,173,174,190,199,205,216,217,218,223,230,244,252,261,264,297,379.
Ne´re-ids, sea-nymphs, daughters of Nereus and Doris,44,167,173,196.
Ne´re-us, a sea-god,44,173,174,209.
Nes´sus, a centaur killed by Hercules, whose jealous wife sent him a robe or shirt steeped in the blood of Nessus, which poisoned him,147.
Nes´tor, king of Pylos, renowned for his wisdom, justice, and knowledge of war,130,138,139,208,213,217,218,219,353.
Ni´be-lun´gen Hoard, treasure seized by Siegfried from the Nibelungs, buried in the Rhine by Hagan after killing Siegfried, and lost when Hagan was killed by Kriemhild; theme of Wagner’s four music-dramas, “The Ring of the Nibelungen,”353.
Ni´be-lun´gen Lied, German epic, giving the same nature-myth as the Norse Volsunga Saga, concerning the Hoard,352,354.
Ni´be-lun´gen Ring, Wagner’s music-dramas,354-357.
Ni´be-lungs, the, a race of Northern dwarfs,353,354.
Nid´hogge, a serpent in the lower world that lives on the dead,330.
Niffle´heim, mist world of the Norsemen; the Hades of absent spirits,330,333,335,348.
Night,4,42,208.
Nile, Egyptian river,31,44.
Nim´rod, tower of,301.
Ni´nus, Tomb of,24.
Ni´o-be, daughter of Tantalus, proud Queen of Thebes, whose seven sons and seven daughters were killed by Apollo and Diana, at which Amphion, her husband, killed himself, and Niobe wept until she was turned to stone,111-115.
Ni´sus, King of Megara,98-101,282,283,284.
No´ah, as legendary ancestor of French, Roman, German, and British peoples,379.
No´man, name assumed by Ulysses,239.
Norns, the three Scandinavian Fates, Urdur (the past), Verdandi (the present), and Skuld (the future),330.
Northern Mythology,328-357.
No´thung, magic sword,355,356.
No´tus, southwest wind,176.
Nox, daughter of Chaos and sister of Erebus; personification of night,4.
Nu´ma, second king of Rome,11,175.
Nymphs, beautiful maidens, lesser divinities of nature: Dryads and Hamadryads, tree-nymphs; Naiads, spring-, brook-, and river-nymphs; Nereids, sea-nymphs; Oreads, mountain- or hill-nymphs,44,79,208.
Ny-sæ´an nymphs,160.
O
Ocean,2,44,273.
O-ce´a-nus, a Titan, ruling watery elements,4,32,59,172,174.
O-cyr´o-e, a prophetess, daughter of Chiron,127.
Od´e-ric,743.
O´din, chief of the Norse gods,329,330,331,344,347,349,351.