HESTIA, cilled Vesta by the Romans, the G.o.ddess of the hearth
HILDEBRAND, German magician and champion
HINDU TRIAD, Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva
HIPPOCRENE (See Helicon)
HIPPODAMIA, wife of Pirithous, at whose wedding the Centaurs offered violence to the bride, causing a great battle
HIPPOGRIFF, winged horse, with eagle"s head and claws
HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons
Hippolytus, son of Thesus
HIPPOMENES, who won Atalanta in foot race, beguiling her with golden apples thrown for her to
HISTION, son of j.a.phet
HODUR, blind man, who, fooled by Loki, threw a mistletoe twig at Baldur, killing him
HOEL, king of Brittany
HOMER, the blind poet of Greece, about 850 B C
HOPE (See PANDORA)
HORAE See HOURS
HORSA, with Hengist, invader of Britain
HORUS, Egyptian G.o.d of the sun
HOUDAIN, Tristram"s dog
HRINGHAM, Baldur"s ship
HROTHGAR, king of Denmark
HUGI, who beat Thialfi in foot races
HUGIN, one of Odin"s two ravens
HUNDING, husband of Sieglinda
HUON, son of Duke Sevinus
HYACINTHUS, a youth beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed by him, changed in death to the flower, hyacinth
HYADES, Nysaean nymphs, nurses of infant Bacchus, rewarded by being placed as cl.u.s.ter of stars in the heavens
HYALE, a nymph of Diana
HYDRA, nine headed monster slain by Hercules
HYGEIA, G.o.ddess of health, daughter of Aesculapius
HYLAS, a youth detained by nymphs of spring where he sought water
HYMEN, the G.o.d of marriage, imagined as a handsome youth and invoked in bridal songs
HYMETTUS, mountain in Attica, near Athens, celebrated for its marble and its honey
HYPERBOREANS, people of the far North
HYPERION, a t.i.tan, son of Ura.n.u.s and Ge, and father of Helios, Selene, and Eos, cattle of.
Hyrcania, Prince of, betrothed to Clarimunda
Hyrieus, king in Greece.
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Iapetus, a t.i.tan, son of Ura.n.u.s and Ge, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
Iasius, father of Atalanta
Ibycus, a poet, story of, and the cranes
Icaria, island of the Aegean Sea, one of the Sporades
Icarius, Spartan prince, father of Penelope
Icarus, son of Daedalus, he flew too near the sun with artificial wings, and, the wax melting, he fell into the sea
Icelos, attendant of Morpheus
Icolumkill SEE Iona
Ida, Mount, a Trojan hill
Idaeus, a Trojan herald
Idas, son of Aphareus and Arene, and brother of Lynceus Idu"na, wife of Bragi
Igerne, wife of Gorlois, and mother, by Uther, of Arthur
Iliad, epic poem of the Trojan War, by Homer