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. See Dirce.
ZEUS, See JUPITER.
ZOROASTER, founder of the Persian religion, which was dominant in
Western Asia from about 550 BC to about 650 AD, and is still held by
many thousands in Persia and in India
End of Project Gutenberg's Legends of Charlemagne, by Thomas Bulfinch