Aetna
TYR, Norse god of battles
TYRE, Phoenician city governed by Dido
TYRIANS
TYRRHEUS, herdsman of King Turnus in Italy, the slaying of whose
daughter's stag aroused war upon Aeneas and his companions
U
UBERTO, son of Galafron
ULYSSES (Greek, Odysseus), hero of the Odyssey
UNICORN, fabled animal with a single horn
URANIA, one of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne
URDUR, one of the Norns or Fates of Scandinavia, representing the
Past
USK, British river
UTGARD, abode of the giant Utgard Loki
UTGARD LO'KI, King of the Giants (See Skrymir)
UTHER (Uther Pendragon), king of Britain and father of Arthur,
UWAINE, knight of Arthur's court
V
VAISSYAS, Hindu caste of agriculturists and traders
VALHALLA, hall of Odin, heavenly residence of slain heroes
VALKYRIE, armed and mounted warlike virgins, daughters of the gods
(Norse), Odin's messengers, who select slain heroes for Valhalla
and serve them at their feasts
VE, brother of Odin
VEDAS, Hindu sacred Scriptures
VENEDOTIA, ancient name for North Wales
VENUS (Aphrodite), goddess of beauty
VENUS DE MEDICI, famous antique statue in Uffizi Gallery,
Florence, Italy
VERDANDI, the Present, one of the Norns
VERTUMNUS, god of the changing seasons, whose varied appearances
won the love of Pomona
VESTA, daughter of Cronos and Rhea, goddess of the homefire, or
hearth
VESTALS, virgin priestesses in temple of Vesta
VESUVIUS, Mount, volcano near Naples
VILLAINS, peasants in the feudal scheme
VIGRID, final battle-field, with destruction of the gods ind
their enemies, the sun, the earth, and time itself
VILI, brother of Odin and Ve
VIRGIL, celebrated Latin poet (See Aeneid)
VIRGO, constellation of the Virgin, representing Astraea, goddess
of innocence and purity
VISHNU, the Preserver, second of the three chief Hindu gods
VIVIANE, lady of magical powers, who allured the sage Merlin and
imprisoned him in an enchanted wood
VOLSCENS, Rutulian troop leader who killed Nisus and Euryalus
VOLSUNG, A SAGA, an Icelandic poem, giving about the same legends
as the Nibelungen Lied
VORTIGERN, usurping King of Britain, defeated by Pendragon 390,
397
VULCAN (Greek, Haephestus), god of fire and metal working, with
forges under Aetna, husband of Venus
VYA'SA, Hindu sage
W
WAIN, the, constellation
WELLGUNDA, one of the Rhine-daughters
WELSH LANGUAGE
WESTERN OCEAN
WINDS, THE
WINTER
WODEN, chief god in the Norse mythology, Anglo Saxon for Odin
WOGLINDA, one of the Rhine-daughters
WOMAN, creation of
WOODEN HORSE, the, filled with armed men, but left outside of Troy
as a pretended offering to Minerva when the Greeks feigned to sail
away, accepted by the Trojans (See Sinon, and Laocoon), brought
into the city, and at night emptied of the hidden Greek soldiers,
who destroyed the town
WOOD NYMPHS
WOTAN, Old High German form of Odin
X
XANTHUS, river of Asia Minor
Y
YAMA, Hindu god of the Infernal Regions
YEAR, THE
YGDRASIL, great ash-tree, supposed by Norse mythology to support
the universe
YMIR, giant, slain by Odin
YNYWL, Earl, host of Geraint, father of Enid
YORK, Britain
YSERONE, niece of Arthur, mother of Caradoc
YSPA DA DEN PEN'KAWR, father of Olwen
Z
ZENDAVESTA, Persian sacred Scriptures
ZEPHYRUS, god of the South wind,
ZERBINO, a knight, son of the king of Scotland
ZETES, winged warrior, companion of Theseus
ZETHUS, son of Jupiter and Antiope, brother of Amphion.
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